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"In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator."
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"My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!"


"It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy."


"In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic."


"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."


"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."


"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."


"I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were."


"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
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