I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that … - Allen Ginsberg

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My basic thought about actors, and I would say this to my students - I love to teach, but I haven't in awhile because I've been fortunate enough to be working - that, "If this is the work you love, there is work for you. That's how the world works. That's the attitude you have to go in there with. You just have to know that it's coming. "

Allen Ginsberg

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull. . . I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

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