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Quotes by Actor

"I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."

"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."

"You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule."


"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."

"It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live."

"But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather."


"For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline."


"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap."

"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."


"It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives."

"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself."

"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."


"Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters."

"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."

"It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show."

"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."


"You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies."

"I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on."

"I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity."

"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."

"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."


"A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands."

"I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!"

"When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV."

"Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories."

"For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to."


"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"
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