"Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking."

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"Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking."

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"If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers."

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"I think life's an irrational obsession."

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