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Quotes by Actor


"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."


"I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God."

"From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work."

"You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty."
Want,

"I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York."

"First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got."


"There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process."

"I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end."

"I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable."
Film,

"It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures."

"The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it."
Act,

"It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it."

"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

"You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead."

"I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck.""
Luck,

"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."

"When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off."


"As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community."


"Acting is always a challenge."


"I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more."


"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."


"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

"My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it."

"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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