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"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
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"Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them."

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."

"My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!"

"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."

"From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before."

"At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like."
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
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