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"Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush."
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"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
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"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."
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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."
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"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again."
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"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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"I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it."
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"Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces."
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"Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness."
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"It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly."
Reaction
"And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment."
Firing
"Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it."
People
"But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good."
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"For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker."
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"I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN."
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"I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them."
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