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"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
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"The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want."

"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."

"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."

"I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke."

"I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies."

"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."

"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice."
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