The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
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Gene Hackman Quote
“It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.”
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