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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
