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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.

There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

I’ve liked most of the films that I’ve been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

There are the people that are like, “I want it to sound like the last one.” You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.

I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

That’s how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.