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Quotes by Actor


"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."

"I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act."
Act,

"You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?"
Fans,

"It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization."


"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."

"The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative."

"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening."

"I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing."


"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."

"Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race."

"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."

"If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life."

"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."

"I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar."


"To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably."


"I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual."

"But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes."

"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars."


"TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer."

"It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy."

"To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting."

"I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character."

"I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake."

"There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying."


"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."

"Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow."
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