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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Learn Much People Use Way Worry
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Build Camera Capture Face Movie Soul
I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Cook First Friend Important Love Very Want Women
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier
They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Around Do Dub Finally Line Loop Over Wait
Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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