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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, 'Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, 'I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?'"
God

"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."
Fear

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
Mother

"My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it."
Living

"Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong."
Boys

"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully."
Actor

"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
Performance

"I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me."
Love

"My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level."
Change

"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."
Mother
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