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Quotes by Actor


"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."


"Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself."

"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed."

"That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do."

"I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you."

"I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done."

"Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best."

"What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film."
Film,

"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."


"You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance."


"I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle."

"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."

"I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed."


"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."

"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."

"Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are."

"There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them."

"I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die."

"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"

"I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them."

"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."

"It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird."

"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."
Age,


"On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development."

"To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard."

"Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth."
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