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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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"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."

"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."

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

"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."

"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."

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

"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."

"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
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"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."


"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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