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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

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Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

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I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.

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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.

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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.

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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

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I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

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I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

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I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

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I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.

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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. 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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