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Quotes by Actor
"We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away."
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"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."
37
"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."
37
"I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems."
37
"I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life."
37
"Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos."
37
"Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to."
37
"You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it."
37
"I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful."
37
"Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion."
37
"Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think."
37
"My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me."
Life,
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"But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it."
37
"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book."
37
"Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all."
37
"People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside."
37
"Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it."
37
"To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages."
37
"My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding."
37
"And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being."
37
"The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience."
37
"But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs."
37
"The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles."
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