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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

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I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

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It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

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Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

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I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

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If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.

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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

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You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

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I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

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Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

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There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

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No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

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I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

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