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" Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. "

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" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "

" When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh. "

" I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. "

" We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation. "

" Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired. "

" While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. "

" When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. "

" Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing. "

" I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. "

" I'm a nut, but not just a nut. "

" I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. "

" I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something. "

" My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are. "

" I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. "

" I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships. "

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" The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. "

" People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. "

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" Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. "

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