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"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."
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"I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever."
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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
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"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
People
"Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love."
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"Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability."
First
"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
Trust
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
Comedy
"But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity."
Finance
"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
Hollywood
"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
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"I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years."
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