"I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done."
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"I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened."
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"I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success."
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"All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it."
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"Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow."
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"How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?"
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"I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am."
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"When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve."
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"With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents."
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"A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious."
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"We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them."
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"There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present."
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"I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him."
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"If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody."
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"I never go up there trying to hit a home run"
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"Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
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"There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy."
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"I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards."
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"Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so."
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"I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over."
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