"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."

Hollywood, Smiles

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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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"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."

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"Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter."

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"For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life."

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"I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?"

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"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."

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"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."

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"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."

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"Directing is a tremendous art."

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"There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year."

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"I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that."

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