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In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

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There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

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The best things in life are usually difficult.

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It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

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I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

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I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

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I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

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If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

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I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

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From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

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It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

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Movies are movies, television is television.

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In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

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I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

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Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

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When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

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I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

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Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

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The space genre is timeless.

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Life: my favorite occupation.

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Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

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I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

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Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

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We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

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The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

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I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

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I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

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