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Quotes by Actor
"I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did."
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"Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears."
Day,
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"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others."
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"I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen."
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"I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something."
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"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
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"To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off."
Work,
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"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
Play,
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"And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did."
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"When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had."
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"Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'"
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"What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement."
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"I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it."
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"So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles."
Old,
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"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."
Life,
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"You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend."
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"It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself."
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"Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it."
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"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success."
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"I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!"
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"I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know."
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"During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job."
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"New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper."
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"People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag."
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"If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call."
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"Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that."
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"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever."
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