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I went public with the alcoholism, very early on. . . the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable person that went before Congress and talked about it, and I thought that was a good idea, to take some of the stigma away from it and say "Normal, average people can fall prey to it. " So it's been public for me. I did a movie about an alcoholic. And today, you're nobody unless you've been to rehab. It seems like everybody has some kind of an addiction.

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I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

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