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Quotes by Actor
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
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"I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV."
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"I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip."
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"My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember."
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"I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight."
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"I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me."
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"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."
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"In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do."
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"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."
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"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."
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"You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done."
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"Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world."
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"If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on."
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"I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously."
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"You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie."
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"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary."
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"I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful."
Fans,
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"There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act."
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"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."
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"Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility."
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"I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to."
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"I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that."
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"The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows."
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"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
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