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" People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on. "

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" Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. "

" You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. "

" When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. "

" I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors. "

" I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. "

" We're all animals. "

" Every country has their problems. "

" Failure's a natural part of life. "

" I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott. "

" I'm not a very skeptical person. "

" I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. "

" Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. "

" I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit. "

" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "

" If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education. "

" I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor. "

" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "

" I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. "

" Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. "

" I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years. "

" I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. "

" Politics is not really my thing. "

" A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies. "

" I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. "

" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "

" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "

" My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember. "