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"I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad."
"When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do."
"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."
"Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film."
"And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him."
"In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails."
"My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system."
"I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person."
"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."
"Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect."
"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
"I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural."
"You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity."
"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny."
"I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it."
"I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have."
"If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!"
"Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy."
"I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain."
"Acting is everybody's favorite second job."