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Quotes by Actor

"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."

"I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it."


"People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused."

"Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order."

"The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me."


"A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity."

"Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it."

"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"

"But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too."

"Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone."

"But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional."

"If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over."


"The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."

"I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have."

"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it."

"Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing."
Time,

"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music."

"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."

"I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me."


"You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that."

"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."

"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."

"I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult."

"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."


"All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy."

"Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love."

"Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil."


"My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard."
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