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"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"

"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."

"You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not."

"You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result."

"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."
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"The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video."


"If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors."


"And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker."
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