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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."
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"I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there."

"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."

"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."

"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."

"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."

"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."

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