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As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.