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Quotes by Actor
"A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show."
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"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."
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"I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2."
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"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."
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"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
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"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."
39
"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
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"People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities."
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"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."
Pain,
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"Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was."
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"Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose."
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"I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing."
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"We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time."
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"I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people."
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"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning."
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"Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death."
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"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."
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"But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter."
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"Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it."
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"I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing."
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"I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you."
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"I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s."
39
"I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything."
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"I don't know what he meant by 'they're after me.' And then I said, 'You know, Bobby, I'm here for you. If you need any help, give me a call.' And then he did call me about a week later, and wanted to know if I had a good attorney."
Help,
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"The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me."
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"I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life."
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