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Quotes by Actor


"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."

"Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little."

"Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career."

"And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today."

"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am."

"In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth."
Time,


"There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying."


"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."

"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."

"Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword."

"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."

"I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear."


"I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever."


"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies."

"I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement."


"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."

"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."

"I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life."


"Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it."

"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."

"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later."

"Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over."

"So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine."
Hair,


"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
Film,

"Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake."

"I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise."

"I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me."

"I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who."
Fun,

"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."


"I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them."

"I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful."
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