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

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

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"It was either therapy or die."

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"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."

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