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Quotes by Actor
"What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily."
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"And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'"
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"Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre."
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"I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care."
Care,
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"It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan."
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"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
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"I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt."
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"If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective."
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"I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring."
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"It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild."
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"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
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"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."
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"I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them."
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"Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen."
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"I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing."
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"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."
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"What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude."
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"I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color."
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"Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them."
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"If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself."
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"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you."
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"I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King."
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"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable."
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"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."
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