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Quotes by Actor
"To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard."
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"Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise."
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"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
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"I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view."
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"People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either."
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"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."
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"I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom."
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"Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers."
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"Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease."
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"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto."
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"I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it."
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"There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it."
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"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
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"I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed."
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"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
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"Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there."
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"Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai."
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"I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time."
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"I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me."
Play,
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"Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring."
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"I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone."
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"If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it."
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"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix."
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"I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder."
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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
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"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."
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"Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for."
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"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
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"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."
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"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."
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