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Quotes by Actor


"But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see."

"If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that."


"Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long."

"You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically."


"Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film."

"I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California."

"I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising."

"I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it."

"I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape."

"I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody."

"You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows."

"I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone."

"This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play."

"I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks."


"In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder."

"I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination."

"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."

"What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes."

"I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day."


"I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead."

"And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them."
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