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"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."

"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"

"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed."


"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."


"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."


"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom."


"Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior."


"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information."


"I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about."


"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."
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