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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.
- Blockbusters
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
- Live Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every actor just wants good writing.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.
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- Nov 07, 2020
On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020