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Quotes by Actor
"Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks."
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"People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried."
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"All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries."
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"If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon."
Life,
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"I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other."
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"And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in."
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"Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too."
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"I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father."
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"I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally."
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"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."
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"I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show."
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"I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002."
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"People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent."
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"I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication."
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"Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues."
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"Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that."
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"When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting."
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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
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"You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it."
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"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
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"Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore."
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"My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative."
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"I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture."
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"I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful."
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"My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life."
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"We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter."
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"I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it."
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"The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me."
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"The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them."
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"Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality."
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