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"All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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

"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."

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

"It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill."

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

"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."

"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."

"I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there."
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