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Quotes by Actor

"But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players."
Will,

"The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching "Ben Hur" at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on."

"I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel."


"I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him."

"Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose."

"Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that."
Will,

"Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control."

"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."

"I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point."

"I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing."


"Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care."
Care,

"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."

"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."

"I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that."
Want,

"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."


"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."

"So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do."

"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks."

"Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job."

"I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it."

"I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting."


"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."

"I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone."

"I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding."

"We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all."

"I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it."

"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."

"I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films."
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