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" My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know? "
Tom Sizemore
Family
Discreet
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" I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all. "
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" When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.' "
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" Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. "
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" I don't know if people know that Sylvester Stallone is one of the most decent gentlemen that I've ever met. He's the most consistent friend I've ever had. "
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" It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office. "
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" Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness. "
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" I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. "
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" I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit. "
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" We get second chances. We get 19th chances. "
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Second
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" I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim. "
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" Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. "
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" You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced. "
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" I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood. "
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