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Quotes by Actor
"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."
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"When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade."
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"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."
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"Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life."
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"I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role."
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"If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people."
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"There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay."
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"There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that."
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"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."
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"If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality."
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"One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role."
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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."
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"I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?"
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"I respect people and expect that kind of respect back."
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"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
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"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
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"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."
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"Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together."
Law,
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"She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents."
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"The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow."
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"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience."
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"You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry."
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"If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment."
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"The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it."
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