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Quotes by Actor
"There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under."
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"I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community."
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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
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"Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing."
Time,
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"But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older."
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"I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead."
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"There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself."
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"I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor."
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"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
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"But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know."
Time,
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"You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now."
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"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."
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"We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people."
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"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint."
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"Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe."
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"I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things."
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"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."
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"If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career."
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"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education."
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"I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image."
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