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When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#beating #billy #bite #comedy #crystal

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#makes #more #part #personal #playing

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end. ↗

— David Niven

#circus #end #going #in the end #inside

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. ↗

— David Niven

#baker #butcher #care #easy #fees

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in . ↗

— David Niven

#i #i see #life #making #place

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. ↗

— Larry Niven

#me #names #new #problem #right

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. ↗

— Larry Niven

#becoming #chance #command #decent #dinosaur

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. ↗

— Larry Niven

#far #get #looking #mistakes #penalized

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#cake #check #clinic #eaten #friend

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#glands #hanging #making #man #nothing