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" What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off. "

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" But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. "

" And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away. "

" I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty. "

" Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. "

" If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. "

" I'm hardly a saint. "

" As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself. "

" But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love. "

" Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise. "

" I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs. "

" I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance. "

" But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed. "

" I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day. "

" Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct. "

" Physical qualities don't really matter much. "

" Intelligence is enormously sexy. "

" It's a living, breathing thing, acting. "

" But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting. "

" I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. "

" We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs. "

" One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage. "

" Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist. "

" You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. "

" I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could. "

" I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me. "

" Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself. "

" I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right. "

" The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love. "

" My body of work means nothing to me. "