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Quotes by Actor
"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."
47
"When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people."
47
"Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights."
47
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
47
"I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism."
47
"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."
47
"When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap."
47
"You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense."
47
"They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general."
47
"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
47
"The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer."
47
"But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well."
Life,
47
"After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made."
47
"I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing."
47
"I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes."
47
"Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on."
47
"We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer."
Fear,
47
"Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks."
47
"Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see."
47
"I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen."
Work,
47
"People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success."
47
"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"
47
"People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch."
47
"Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good."
47
"So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether."
47
"There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now."
47
"I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality."
47
"We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together."
Will,
47
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