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Quotes by Actor

"Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it."

"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University."

"I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life."

"The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer."

"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."


"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet."

"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people."

"I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain."

"I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was."

"I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened."

"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work."


"I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process."

"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."

"Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III."


"I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that."

"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business."


"I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing."

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


"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me."

"When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along."


"I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."

"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor."

"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"


"I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about."


"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children."

"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
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