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"Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal."
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"You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them."
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"Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal."
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"I started training for musicals since I was a boy."
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"And I've had vocal training on and off for years."
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"Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars."
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"To Be Trained Is To Be Strengthened."
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"I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."
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"To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition."
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"Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out."
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"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
Being

"Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it."
Home

"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."
Thought

"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."
Business

"I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't."
Thought

"I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day."
Family

"I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time."
Time

"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."
Death

"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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"I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me."
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