"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."

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"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."

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"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."

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"But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all."

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"People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't."

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"I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night."

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