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Quotes by Actor
"I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved."
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"There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way."
Want,
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"Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work."
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"It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize."
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"Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population."
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"Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand."
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"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting."
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"Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth."
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"I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends."
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"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
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"It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time."
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"I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character."
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"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."
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"Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student."
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"I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work."
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"They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs."
Fire,
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"I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!"
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"Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer."
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"The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity."
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"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
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"I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. "Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.""
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"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them."
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"I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner."
Hate,
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"In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief."
Man,
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"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"
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"You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human."
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"Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday."
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"I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this."
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