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Quotes by Actor

"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."

"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."

"People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement."

"Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living."

"And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly."

"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try."

"I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better."

"There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here."

"I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside."

"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."

"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."

"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with."

"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."

"Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing."

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."

"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."

"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."

"I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker."

"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."

"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house."

"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
Film,

"In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't."

"I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night."

"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."

"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."

"Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together."

"Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit."

"It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that."

"I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing."
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