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Quotes by Actor
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
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"I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that."
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"Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had."
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"For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be."
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"After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again."
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"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."
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"Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."
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"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes."
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"This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska."
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"Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim."
Will,
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"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."
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"I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't."
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"I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society."
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"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with."
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"I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up."
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"It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!"
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"Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately."
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"No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne."
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"I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept."
Will,
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"A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen."
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"In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go."
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"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
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