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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

I usually work 16-hour days.

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.