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Quotes by Actor
"It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese."
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"I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while."
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"The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing."
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"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"
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"One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors."
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"My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league."
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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."
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"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
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"I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me."
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"The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent."
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"Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life."
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"I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do."
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"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way."
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"All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do."
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"People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances."
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"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
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"This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path."
Idea,
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"You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle."
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"Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother."
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"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."
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"I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know."
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"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
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"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants."
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"I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft."
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"Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script."
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"I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying."
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"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."
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"Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience."
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