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Quotes by Actor

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave."

"After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London."


"If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat."

"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved."

"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty."


"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."

"I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances."


"The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war."

"We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment."

"When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them."

"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."

"I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy."

"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

"That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone."

"I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help."

"When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically."

"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."

"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."


"The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know."


"Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd."

"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."

"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."

"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."
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"I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid."
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