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Quotes by Actor


"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."

"Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years."

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."

"Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident."

"It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks."

"I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care."

"I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier."

"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy."

"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."

"I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible."

"And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future."

"I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille."

"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."


"It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach."

"They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show."

"I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me."
Men,

"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."

"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."


"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"

"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."

"When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth."

"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not."

"No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not."
Will,
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