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"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
"The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner."
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"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."
"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself."
"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."
"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."
"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."
"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."
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