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"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."
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"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"

"Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success"

"If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight."

"So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments."

"The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers."

"The pleasure is there, between your expectations and regrets."
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"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."

"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."

"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."

"It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill."

"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."

"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."

"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."
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