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Quotes by Actor


"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."

"Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive."

"We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change."


"The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me."
Men,

"Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here."


"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

"Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again."


"To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse."

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

"The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers."

"I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story."

"You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves."

"Fellow made me a $10 bet I couldn't quit, and I haven't had a drink since. At the time I needed the $10."
Time,

"Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art."


"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."


"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."


"Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book."


"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."

"Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!"


"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."


"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."

"Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there."


"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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