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"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."

"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."

"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."

"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."

"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."

"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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"I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies."

"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."

"I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that."

"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 couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do."

"The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss."
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