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Quotes by Actor

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

"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,


"It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love."


"I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly."

"But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art."
Art,

"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."

"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."

"There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it."

"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful."

"It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box."

"I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing."


"What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave."


"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."

"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give."


"And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development."

"I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies."


"I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction."

"We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching."

"I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup."

"The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."


"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish."


"Chris Carter is just a fantastic guy, I have enjoyed working for him, immensely. I loved this character. I don't think I can say enough about Chris. It's just a fantastic thing that he's created and I'm so thrilled that I've been a part of it. I'm very grateful."

"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball."

"In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for."

"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."


"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
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