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Quotes by Actor

"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."

"With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?"

"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."


"It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house."

"I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving."

"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?""


"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot."

"Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone."

"In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing."

"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."

"You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors."

"It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous."

"There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it."

"I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me."
Man,

"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that."

"This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day."

"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."


"But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun."

"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
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