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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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You keep learning all the time.
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When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
