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"I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried."
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"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
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"Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible."
"When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight."
"I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried."
"They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse."
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"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
"When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow."
"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
"In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man."
"It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days."
"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better."
"You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back."
"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling."
"In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while."
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