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Quotes by Actor

"A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints."


"I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time."

"How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?"
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"No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had."

"I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move."

"The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions."


"I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it."

"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."
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"I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy."


"Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years."

"I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble."

"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."


"I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking."


"Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them."

"I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family."

"New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South."


"I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?"


"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."

"In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple."

"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you."
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