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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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"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally."
Hate
"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."
Habit
"Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil."
Actor
"It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it."
Courtesy
"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream."
Fish
"Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch."
Nerves
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
Decency
"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"
Death
"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."
Hell
"Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it."
Sex
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