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Quotes by Actor

"I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough."

"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."


"I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life."

"I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money."

"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"

"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."

"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."

"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."

"Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy."


"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."


"If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great."

"I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from."

"I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes."


"I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything."


"I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters."

"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."

"Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies."

"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."

"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."


"I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15."

"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."

"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."

"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."

"People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity."


"The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served."

"I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American."

"Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him."

"I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved."
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