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  • I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

    New Year   School   Years  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

    Genius   Trouble   Cases  
  • I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

    Writing   Age   Lawyer  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

    Writing   Two   Miracle  
  • I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

  • I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

    "Inside the Actors Studio". www.imdb.com. 1994.
  • I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

    Jobs   School   Actors  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

    Men   Coward   Brian  
    "Fictional Character: Warden Stefan Gentles". Arrested Development, www.imdb.com. 2003.
  • I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk for three or four hours, and they'd take it back and it would be transcribed, and it would be given to the writers, those many writers you see on all those shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, etc. And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show.

    Kings   Would Be   Three  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

  • I became an actor by accident, not by design.

    "Big Think Interview With James Lipton". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

    Wife   Joy   Accepting  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

  • Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

  • Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

  • The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

    Talking   Able   Way  
  • I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

  • I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

    Horse   Missing   Fence  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

    Mother   Art   Father  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

  • Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

    Writing   Elation   May  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
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