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Quotes by Actor

"If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy."

"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."

"Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive."

"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."

"As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me."

"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."

"I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives."


"I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable."


"Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind."


"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."

"I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect."

"The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back."

"It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break."


"You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level."
Film,

"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."

"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."


"The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing."

"I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero."

"My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture."

"I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him."


"I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him."

"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."


"We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film."

"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."

"I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters."


"I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them."

"But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting."


"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level."
Play,

"There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!"


"There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic."
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