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I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
