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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."

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"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."

"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."

"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."

"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."

"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."

"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."

"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."
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