"The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life."
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"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do"
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"Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player."
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"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that."
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"I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it."
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"Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor."
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"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."
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"My motto is: more good times."
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal."
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"This town needs an enema!"
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"Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors."
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"There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it."
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"I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste."
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"Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene."
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"I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous."
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"I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute."
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"I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny."
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"When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun."
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"I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home."
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