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Quotes by Actor
"If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better."
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"There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do."
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"The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians."
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"I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now."
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"I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard."
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"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence."
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"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
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"I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature."
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"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."
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"Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time."
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"I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk."
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"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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"I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess."
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"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."
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"There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein."
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"Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row."
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"It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported."
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"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."
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"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."
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"In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet."
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"The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know."
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"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."
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"Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?"
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"The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag."
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"The only greatness for man is immortality."
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"With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting."
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"As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible."
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"But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part."
Work,
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