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Quotes by Actor
"You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in."
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"Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film."
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"After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make."
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"There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year."
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"For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten."
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"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
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"Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room."
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"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
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"I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off."
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"Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff."
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"Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with."
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"You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him."
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"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."
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"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff."
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"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
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"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
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"My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness."
7
"That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts."
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"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."
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"I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising."
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"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."
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"I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything."
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"I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at."
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"New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper."
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"The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel."
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"I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight."
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