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"We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names."
Wife
"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
Father
"We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile."
History
"Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption."
Baby
"But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and there were 1700 people."
People
"I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed."
Time
"There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway."
Man
"We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people."
People
"But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy."
Time
"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."
Father
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"We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous."
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"I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to."
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"You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now."
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"Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door."
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"I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy."
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"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
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"Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me."
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"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."
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"The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby."
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"Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed."
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