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Quotes by Actor
"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
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"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
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"There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful."
Wife,
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"Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts."
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"Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist."
8
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
8
"There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment."
8
"There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle."
8
"The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with."
8
"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."
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"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
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"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."
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"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done."
Work,
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"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
8
"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."
8
"I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual."
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"I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this."
8
"I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors."
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"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear."
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
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"I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh."
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"It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience."
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"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move."
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"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."
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"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."
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"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
8
"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach."
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