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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."
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"I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old."

"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen."

"It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character."

"Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change."

"I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?"

"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."

"After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life."
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