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"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."

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"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."

"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."

"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice."

"Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies."

"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."

"I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke."

"I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do."
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