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"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."
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"The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire."

"Don't be afraid to wake up your dream... give it a hard nudge, a toss of cold water... make it leap, make it fly. Dreams won't come to life without action."

"Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down."

"Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle."

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

"Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them."

"Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home."

"My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty."
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"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."

"I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there."

"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."

"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."

"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."

"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."

"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."
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