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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."
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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."
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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."
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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."
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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."
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"I've been a very lucky actor."
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"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."
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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."
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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."
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"My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work."
Work
"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."
Movies
"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."
Education
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."
Comedy
"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
Class
"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."
Life
"I'm the audience's representative on earth."
Earth
"I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age."
Age
"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
Conviction
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
Fault
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