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Quotes by Actor
"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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"In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while."
49
"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
49
"I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy."
49
"I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job."
49
"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
49
"Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music."
49
"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
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"And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies."
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"I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography."
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"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it."
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"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."
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"Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision."
49
"This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world."
49
"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."
49
"I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more."
49
"I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."
49
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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"And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay."
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"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything."
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"Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman."
48
"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
48
"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."
48
"I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility."
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