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"While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed."
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"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."

"That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary."

"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."

"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."

"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."

"I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable."

"Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way."

"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."

"The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is."
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"I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach."

"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."

"Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face."

"And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves."

"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."

"It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives."
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