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"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."
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"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
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"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
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"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."
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"I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!"
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"My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors."
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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."
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"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
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"And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor."
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"It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake."
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"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
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"Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character."
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"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."
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"With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling."
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"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."
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"It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good."
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"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."
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