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You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

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No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

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If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.

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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

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There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

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I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of the time, I've been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with. It doesn't mean we don't take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we're) bringing world peace.

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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.

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Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

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'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

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It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

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If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

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I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

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That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

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