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" Acting is the way I make my living. "
Make
Living
Acting
" Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. "
Responsibility
Half
Succeed
" Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. "
Business
Environment
Healthy
" Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. "
System
Like
Our
" Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station. "
Station
Wildlife
Way
" I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern. "
Writing
College
Creative
" Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. "
Interdependence
Opinion
Fact
" It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. "
Home
America
Change
" I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. "
Care
Body
People
" I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. "
Bad
Think
Today
" I've always been a writer. "
Writer
Always
Been
" I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something. "
Commitment
Say
Phone
" Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines. "
Time
First
History
" Money is a way of creating scarcity. "
Money
Scarcity
Way
" My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions. "
Gathering
Kid
Kind
" My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. "
Gift
Engaging
Way
" My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it. "
Garden
Over
Over It
" People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America. "
Money
People
Short
" The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that. "
Limit
Before
Body
" The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that. "
Feeling
Believe
Me
" The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. "
Worthy
Enough
Just
" We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. "
Villain
Energy
Values
" When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. "
College
Sweater
Got
" When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. "
Lose
Rules
Win
" Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage. "
Compassion
Lot
Maturity
" You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it. "
Sitting
Believe
Talking
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