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Quotes by Actor
"I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around."
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"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role."
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"I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer."
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"To me, success is choice and opportunity."
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"Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field."
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"There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward."
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"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."
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"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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"I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday."
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"My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!"
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"Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios."
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"If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it."
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"But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker."
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"Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out."
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"When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave."
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"All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from."
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"I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth."
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"I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor."
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"As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change."
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"We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?"
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"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
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"In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way."
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"Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard."
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"If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me."
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"Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign."
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"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing."
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"That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood."
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"I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line."
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