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"I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy."
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
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"Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference."
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"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."
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"There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe."
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"The difference with me is that I did inhale."
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"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."
Death


"This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people."
People


"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."
Thought


"I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough."
Health


"I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor."
History


"You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero."
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"I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood."
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"I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect."
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"I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state."
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"I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set."
Hurt
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