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Quotes by Actor
"I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to."
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"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."
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"What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great."
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"It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9."
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"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."
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"Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
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"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
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"My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly."
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"There starts to be an overlap between you and the character."
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"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."
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"Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days."
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"When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside."
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"The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel."
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"I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it."
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"We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away."
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"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."
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"Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow."
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"I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited."
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"What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it."
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"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."
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"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
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"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
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