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"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
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"I think television defeats ventriloquism."
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"When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally."
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"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
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"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."
Fear
"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
Mother
"My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it."
Living
"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
Performance
"I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me."
Love
"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."
Mother
"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto."
First
"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."
Day
"When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things."
Age
"The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous."
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