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Quotes by Actor

"I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines."

"I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein."
Hell,

"I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity."


"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."


"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

"I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children."

"It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year."

"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek."

"I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule."

"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."

"Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better."


"Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed."


"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."

"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."


"I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust."

"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."

"We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf."
Time,


"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that."

"I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think."


"In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite."

"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."


"Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you."

"I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle."

"I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!"

"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."

"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."


"I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields."

"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting."

"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."
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