"And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous."
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"Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'."
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"Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue."
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"I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny."
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"Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness."
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"We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long."
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"I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring."
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"If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space."
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"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
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"I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must."
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"And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in."
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"My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
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""You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do."
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"Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image."
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"I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe."
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"The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it."
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"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."
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"Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be."
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"Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot."
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