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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was either therapy or die.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comeback is a good word, man.
- Backwards
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.
- Getting Older
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- Nov 07, 2020
As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm only as rich as my next film.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020