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"My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream."
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"If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous."
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"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."
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"A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart."
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"It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger."
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"The anger of lovers renews their love."
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"Anger is the most effective inspiration."
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"As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness."
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"Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old."
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"Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium."
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"Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it."
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"It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging."
Act
"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
Sense
"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."
Feelings
"You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair."
Time
"Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs."
Music
"I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black."
Actor
"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance."
Dance
"They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high."
People
"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."
Life
"I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done."
Time
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