"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."

Acting, Circumstances

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"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."

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"It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with."

Love

"You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."

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"The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over."

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