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Quotes by Actor
"Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time."
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"I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory."
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"My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality."
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"Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control."
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"Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable."
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"I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order."
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"But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do."
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"I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience."
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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
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"You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all."
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"Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons' episodes are my favorites too."
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"I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs."
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"They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old."
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"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
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"It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned."
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"I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need."
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"Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good."
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"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."
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"And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it."
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"They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em."
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"I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda."
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"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play."
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"I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy."
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"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions."
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"I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.""
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"Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore."
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"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."
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"All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it."
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"We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure."
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