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"I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters."
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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."

"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back."

"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."

"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with."

"The vicious circle of life is employment."
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"I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology."

"I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know."

"I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash."

"The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States."

"George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?"

"I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately."

"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
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