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Quotes by Actor

"Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off."

"I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers."


"I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else."
Work,

"I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one."

"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."


"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."


"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her."
Work,

"We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life."

"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."


"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."

"Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess."

"I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way."


"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."

"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."


"Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard."

"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."


"And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical."


"But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second."


"The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break."


"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."

"Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice."

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."


"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."


"I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror."
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