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"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time."
Sports
"My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went."
Family
"The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!"
Boys
"We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years."
Father
"But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well."
Life
"I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible."
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"Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from."
Actor
"Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on."
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"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."
Flowers
"The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking."
Thinking
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