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Rip Torn

"When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'"

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"When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'"

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Amber Hurdle

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father started me singing in church."

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Amber Hurdle

"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father loved people, children and pets."

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Amber Hurdle

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

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Amber Hurdle

"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."

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Amber Hurdle

"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

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Rip Torn
"I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man."

Actor

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"Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more."

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"I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood."

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"Anything new is always considered the devil's tool."

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"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."

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"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"

World

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"If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it."

Love

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"I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him."

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"There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live."

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"I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage."

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