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Quotes by Actor

"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."

"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."

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."

"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."

"Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength."

"I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit."

"Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave."

"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets."

"We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going."

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."

"There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double."

"I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture."

"I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way."

"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."

"I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director."

"We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie."

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."

"I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant."
Time,

"I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform."


"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard."

"I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way."

"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."

"But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband."

"I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up."

"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche."

"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio."
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