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"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."
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"But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter."


"You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present."


"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."


"I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools."


"I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do."


"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."


"I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"
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