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" I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk. "
Michael Keaton
Talk
Acting
Really
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" I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse. "
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" If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer. "
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" I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema. "
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" My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome! "
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" I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies. "
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" In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.' "
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" I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. "
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" People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood. "
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" I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much. "
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" I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?' "
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" I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie. "
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Studio
" There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. "
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You
World
Time
" My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me. "
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" If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny. "
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" Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down. "
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" Guys never really get over their toys. "
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" I never wanted to play the short game. "
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" Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well. "
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" 'Birdman' is a very risky movie. I knew I wanted to do it just from watching Alejandro's other work. I told a friend, 'I would have done it based on 'Amores Perros' alone.' "
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" I don't want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It's a partnership. I want to connect. "
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" There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love. "
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" I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that. "
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" David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out. "
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" The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more. "
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" We had four guys in the family, so somebody was always hitting somebody or chasing somebody or getting mad or fighting or wrestling - that was just what you did. So when you're the youngest, it's good for you. You figure out real early how to get out of headlocks and holds. "
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" I try to not be or associate with elitists. "
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" I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.' "
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