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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame."
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"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
Self-Doubt
"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie."
Friendship
"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."
Thought
"You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it."
Love
"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
School
"Art depends on luck and talent."
Art
"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."
Work
"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."
Money
"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."
Success
"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies."
Work
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