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Quotes by Actor


"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues."

"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."


"About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation."

"Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am."

"The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you."

"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."

"The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward."

"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."

"Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving."


"Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind."

"It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging."

"You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope."

"I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned."


"I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting."

"If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar."
Life,

"It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good."

"Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience."

"One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well."

"If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that."


"As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed."

"In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand."

"I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment."

"I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture."

"I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me."

"I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes."
Work,
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