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Quotes by Actor
"If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it."
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"Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved."
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"As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character."
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"I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing."
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"I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it."
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"Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies."
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"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."
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"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
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"Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic."
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"Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period."
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"So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know."
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"You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced."
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"I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not."
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"There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice."
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"I'm certainly no victim in this. I don't want to come off as a sad sack; I pissed a lot of people off."
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"This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on."
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"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art."
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"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."
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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
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"I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that."
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"The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is."
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"The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true."
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"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."
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"There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life."
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