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"The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"

"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."

"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."
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"Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible."

"The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money."

"If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew."

"I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character."

"Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal."

"These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like."
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