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I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

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How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

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When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

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I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare.

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You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

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In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.

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It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.

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Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

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No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

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In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

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I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

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I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'

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I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

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I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

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About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.

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When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

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The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable.

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Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

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Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

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We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

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Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

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Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle.

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Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

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You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit.

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I'm glad I never went to war.

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Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

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We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

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American society is still puritanical.

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I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

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The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

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It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

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The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

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World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.

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Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

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Acting is always therapeutic.

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