"This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby."
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"As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces."
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"No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it."
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"Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life."
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"Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together."
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"I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try."
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"I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me."
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"I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way."
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"There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail."
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"What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated."
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"But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic."
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"I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience."
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"I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual."
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"I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride."
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"You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically."
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"I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work."
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"I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative."
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"I certainly would never overstep my bounds and make suggestions to a director. As an actor I'm trying to fit to the best of my abilities within the director's vision, and trying to find some happy rapport where we can both bring something to it that's fresh. Usually I've been lucky in working with directors who have trusted my instincts."
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"With every action oriented or adventure film, there's going to be a moment when every actor becomes a stuntman and every stuntman becomes an actor. You try to do as much of it as you can, but inevitably the studio wants you to finish the movie. So you've got to slow down and you're really got to defer to your team to make sure you do."
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"When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions."
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