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"Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy."

"I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing."

"Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it."

"I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive."

"Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from the inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner emptiness, from the capacity to surrender to life. Then the therapist becomes less of a technician and more of an artist in the therapeutic work. It is then when the therapist and client meets in awareness without any barrier between."

"Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one."

"I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest."
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"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."

"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."

"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."

"It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill."

"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."

"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."
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