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Quotes by Actor

"Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community."

"The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent."

"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."
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"I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain."

"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."

"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."

"I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning."
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"Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!"

"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."

"When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are."
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"Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky."

"I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know."


"We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny."

"In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much."

"You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything."

"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."

"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years."

"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."


"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."


"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."


"I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night."


"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."
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