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Quotes by Actor

"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road."

"Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director."
Rest,


"If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane."
Home,

"I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction."


"That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians."

"It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am."

"I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me."
Time,

"I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment."

"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace."

"I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went."


"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective."

"I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond."

"I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age."

"I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun."

"The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family."

"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations."


"In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?"

"When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring."


"We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience."

"My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy."

"No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there."


"I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid."

"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."

"I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters."

"I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25."
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