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"Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip."
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"Courage doesn't defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear."
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"We can't continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition."
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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
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"Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words."
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"To get it doneand see it thru,find less to sayand more to do."
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"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."
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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
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"There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."
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"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
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"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"
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"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."
Death
"This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people."
People
"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
"I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough."
Health
"I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor."
History
"You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero."
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"I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood."
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"I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state."
Frustration
"I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set."
Hurt
"Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip."
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