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Quotes by Actor

"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."

"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."

"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."

"We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves."

"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."

"I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."

"When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win."
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"It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp."

"Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends."

"I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio."

"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."

"A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."

"Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating."

"Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all."

"I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist."

"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are."

"But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies."

"The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity."

"I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have."

"What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime."

"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."

"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."

"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent."

"Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back."

"I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it."
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