"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."

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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."

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"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

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"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

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"We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces."

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Lie

"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."

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"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."

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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."

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"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."

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"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."

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"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."

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"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."

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"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."

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"I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else."

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