We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.


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Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
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I think of my career as something apart from myself.
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You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
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I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
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Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
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When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
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Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
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I gave up my whole life to my career.
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Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
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There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
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It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
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It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
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Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
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I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
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I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
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Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
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I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
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Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
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It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
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Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
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I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
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I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
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Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
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My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
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The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
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It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
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