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Quotes by Actor
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."
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"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
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"As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong."
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"I always look for a challenge and something that's different."
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"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
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"Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic."
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"I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio."
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"Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps."
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"I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it."
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"The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity."
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"A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character."
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"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."
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"The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican."
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"Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living."
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"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."
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"What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie."
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"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."
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"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."
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"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."
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"If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me."
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"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."
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"It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right."
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"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
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"There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing."
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"I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff."
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"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."
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"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."
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"I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could."
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"I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me."
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"The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow."
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"My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?"
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