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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
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"For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me."

"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."

"I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic."

"The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."

"I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house."

"I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me."
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