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Quotes by Actor

"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"
Life,


"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."


"The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically."


"I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night."


"And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show."
Time,

"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation."

"I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting."

"Political courage is not political suicide."


"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."

"If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it."


"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."

"When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light."


"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."

"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."


"We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting."


"I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work."
Work,

"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Envy,

"If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good."

"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."

"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."

"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."

"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility."


"Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks."

"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."
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