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" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

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" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "

" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "

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" My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life. "

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" I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit. "

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