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Joe Mantegna

"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."

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"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."

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Amber Hurdle

"I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it."

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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I started out, all I did was play my trombone."

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Amber Hurdle

"I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice."

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"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."

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Amber Hurdle

"Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out."

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Amber Hurdle

"I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't like to play the victim."

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"But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am."
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"I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters."
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"If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this."
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"If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for."
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"I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling."
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"I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things."
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"I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children."
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