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" I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.' "

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" I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. "

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" I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. "

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" It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. "

" Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. "

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" I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work. "

" I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself. "

" I just want to be myself. "

" My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. "

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" I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. "

" It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes. "

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" I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy. "

" Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased. "

" I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. "

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" I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. "

" I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. "

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" Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. "

" I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. "

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