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"As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability."
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"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."
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"Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven."
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"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."
Money
"As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed."
Ability
"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
Certainty
"From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before."
Time
"I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."
Reality
"Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them."
Positive
"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive."
Energy
"I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy."
Fancy
"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
Years
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