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Quotes by Actor
"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."
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"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 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 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."
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"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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"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States."
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"It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group."
Time,
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"People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are."
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"What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?"
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"Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about."
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