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"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."
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"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."
"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
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"There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word."
"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable."
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"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."
"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
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