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Quotes by Actor
"My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard."
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"So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever."
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"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."
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"From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker."
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"A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs."
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"I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project."
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"I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together."
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"I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative."
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"I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend."
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"You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered."
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"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
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"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market."
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"I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador."
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"The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else."
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"I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band."
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"I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real."
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"I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films."
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"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."
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"We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television."
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"That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment."
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"The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is."
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"That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy."
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"I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged."
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