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"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
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"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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"I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way."
Life
"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
Hollywood
"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved."
Time
"Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part."
Actors
"I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate."
Climate
"You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick."
People
"It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS."
People
"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening."
Actor
"I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that."
People
"That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone."
Opportunity
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