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" I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth. "

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" There are real tricks to getting a job that I just don't like or understand - it feels too close to pandering. I've tried it, but it doesn't work. "

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" I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me. "

" I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.' "

" All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else. "

" Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. "

" No matter all of your credits and accomplishments - you can be forgotten in a trice. The idea that you have to go back and start again after considerable success can destroy you if you're not strong. I never lost track of who I am and what I can do, because I continually find things to do, but not everyone has that resource. "

" I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough. "

F. Murray Abraham

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" I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy. "

" There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one. "

" After I finished school, I headed for Los Angeles, thinking, 'Movies. Beaches.' But I wanted to do serious stage work, so I upped sticks and moved to New York to study. I did the usual day jobs to support myself - waiting on tables, washing dishes, parking cars, anything to pay the rent. I was a terrible waiter, by the way. "

" I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that. "

" I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that. "

" I'm the spokesperson for the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees. My father was from Syria. It's an American initiative, and it's multi-faith. So, it's maybe 60-65 different organisations, Jews, Christians, Hindus... Anyway, it's very important and serious. "

" My Oscar has appeared in every play I've done since - not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy. "

" Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. "

" The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. "

" Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. "

F. Murray Abraham

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" I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive. "

" One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely. "

" Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance. "

" I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see 'The Glass Menagerie?' "

" I'm not afraid to go anywhere, to the smallest theatre or the least amount of money. "

" I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives. "

" Marlon Brando was the major influence in my life, though I never met him. And my father - we didn't get along, but he was an influence in terms of honesty and work ethic. That's the greatest compliment I could pay him. "

" As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. "

" It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American actor was to let the British know we can act as well as they can. "

" People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace. "

" I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. "

F. Murray Abraham

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" I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic. "

" The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. "