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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

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