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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl."
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"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."
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"I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us."
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"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."
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"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."
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"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."
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"I want to get into movies, not just TV series."
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"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."
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"I've never had my heart broken."
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"Change is never easy."
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"I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"
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"I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do."
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"I came from a real working-class show business family."
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"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."
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"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."
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"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
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"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."
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