"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
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"Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby."
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"You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!"
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"I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner."
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"The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals."
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"It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something."
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"The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage."
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"Acting is an empty and useless profession."
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"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."
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"People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking."
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"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
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"Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?"
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"The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid."
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"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer."
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"I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass."
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"Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time."
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"There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life."
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"Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school."
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"It's a long climb up Fools' Hill."
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"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
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