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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."

"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."

"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."

"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."

"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."

"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."

"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."

"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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"If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it."

"I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself."

"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."

"You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could."

"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."

"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."

"I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him."

"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."
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