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Quotes by Actor
"He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total."
Play,
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"I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special."
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"People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up."
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"I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8."
Time,
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him."
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"None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives."
Rest,
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"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit."
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"Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun."
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"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."
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"I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those."
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"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
Jazz,
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"I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer."
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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials."
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"Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write."
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"Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate."
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"Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma."
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"I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy."
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"But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all."
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"Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement."
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"It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people."
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"I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things."
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"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."
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"The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry."
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"It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl."
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"I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time."
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