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" It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. "

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" I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. "

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" Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth. "

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" Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. "

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" I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela. "

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" When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me. "

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