“Clint Eastwood is a very soft-spoken, humble guy, actually, which helped put somebody like me at ease, who had never worked with somebody as huge as that. I'm sure that's not always the case with legendary people.”
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“You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.”
“Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.”
“When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.”
“I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.”
“If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.”
“It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.”
“Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.”
“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”
“FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.”
“Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.”
“If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?”
“The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.”
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.”
“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”
“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.”
“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”
“Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.”
“I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.”