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Quotes by Actor

"The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time."

"A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific."


"The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced."

"Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula."

"In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people."


"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."


"So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was."


"Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had."

"I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really."

"My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime."

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

"No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form."

"If you make compelling television, they will come."

"Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager."


"All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle."

"I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to."

"I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom."

"I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist."


"My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV."

"Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all."


"I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors."

"As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content."


"Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job."

"I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor."

"When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty."


"I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it."

"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."


"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work."

"I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation."

"I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can."

"I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World."
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