If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

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I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

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Good directors say: "Here's where the play is." They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

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I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

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