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"All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."
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"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
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"And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true."
People

"I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office."
Life

"All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle."
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"Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had."
Character

"Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that."
Truth

"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."
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"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
Work

"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
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"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."
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