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"Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard."
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"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it."

"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."

"I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way."

"I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out."

"I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go."

"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity."
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