"I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor."

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"I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

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"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."

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"I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people."

People

"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."

People

"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."

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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."

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"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."

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"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."

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"I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures."

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"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."

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"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."

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"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."

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