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"I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it."
"I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work."
"We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it"
"You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop."
"Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families ... the look of absolute horror. He's going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It's just total horror, and the camera's still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, "Anything else, Bud?""
"Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat."
"All parties are good."
"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
"It's a lot of work to read a crummy script."
"The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive."
"You had to keep the mood up; you had to keep the tempo up. You had to keep the feeling of, "Hey, we're doing something that's really exciting. It's fun being with these people." And the more fun you have, the better you do it."
"People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour."
"People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different."
"Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding."
"I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!"
"Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human."
"It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be."
"I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato."
"I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it."
"Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day."