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I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
Sam Waterston
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
Sam Waterston
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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.
Sam Waterston
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I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
Sam Waterston
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
Sam Waterston
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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.
Sam Waterston
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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.
Sam Waterston
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Sam Waterston
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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.
Sam Waterston
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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.
Sam Waterston
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I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
Sam Waterston
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
Sam Waterston
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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
Sam Waterston
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
Sam Waterston
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