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"My father was absent and he was a hero to me."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
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"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."
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"I want to come across as a positive person."
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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
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"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
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"My father was absent and he was a hero to me."
Father
"I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work."
Work
"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
Ireland
"I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage."
Marriage
"I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them."
Father
"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger."
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"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it."
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