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"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."

"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."

"It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love."

"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."


"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."

"What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?"

"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."

"I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept."


"Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people."

"I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there."


"To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out."

"I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?"


"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 just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me."

"I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life."

"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."

"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor."

"I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done."

"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."

"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic."


"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to."

"It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself."


"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."


"It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives."

"I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else."


"I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic."

"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."

"I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period."


"There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed."
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