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Quotes by Actor
"I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky."
Talk,
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"I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever."
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"All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can."
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"Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar."
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"I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov."
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"Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with."
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"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
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"Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing."
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"An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego."
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"Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed."
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"Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film."
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"They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not."
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"I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience."
Work,
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"I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe."
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"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."
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"I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope."
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"I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me."
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"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really."
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"When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do."
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"Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that."
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"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."
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"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young."
Life,
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"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important."
Eye,
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"We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now."
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