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Quotes by Actor

"Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse."


"The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish."

"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie."

"As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting."

"Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film."

"I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore."

"I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years."


"Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it."

"What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better."


"I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right."

"I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan."

"I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch."

"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."

"Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics."

"A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job."

"I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it."

"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."

"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them."

"What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off."

"If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man."

"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out."

"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."

"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."

"I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment."

"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."

"I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV."
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