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J. D. Salinger

"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."

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"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."

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"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."

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"I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that."

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"I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash."

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Akiroq Brost

"I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location."

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Akiroq Brost

"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it."

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J. D. Salinger
"Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs."

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J. D. Salinger
"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."

God

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J. D. Salinger
"He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."

God

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J. D. Salinger
"Mothers are all slightly insane."

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J. D. Salinger
"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."

Movies

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J. D. Salinger
"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

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J. D. Salinger
"They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good."

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J. D. Salinger
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."

Love

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J. D. Salinger
"People never notice anything."

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J. D. Salinger
"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."

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