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Quotes by Actor


"I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."

"I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing."

"I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."


"'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties."

"The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people."

"On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me."

"Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react."

"Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."
Time,

"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."


"It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care."

"I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses."

"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."

"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."

"The whole family is tight. We all really love each other."

"I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting."

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."

"You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in."

"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."


"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix."

"In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc."

"I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'"
Man,
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