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As the stars make more and more money – one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million – everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don’t need to pay these people, and they don’t.

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Brian Dennehy

The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

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The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that’s what I do.

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In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks – you name ’em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that’s a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can’t do anyplace else.

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It’d be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I’m not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

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My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

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At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else’s rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

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Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

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Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It’s harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I’ll never quit working in the theater – until I can’t memorize two lines back to back.

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If you’re sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.

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Brian Dennehy

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don’t know when it happens, I said, ‘Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.’

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Brian Dennehy

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

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