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Quotes by Actor
"Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship."
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"I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time."
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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
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"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically."
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"Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining."
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"The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge."
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"I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there."
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"I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there."
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"You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick."
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"I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities."
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"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
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"When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks."
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"As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something."
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"I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it."
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"Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage."
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"James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies."
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"The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody."
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"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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"Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth."
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"We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate."
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"Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down."
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"I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?"
41
"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
41
"In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man."
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"A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife."
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"The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of."
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"You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut."
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"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders."
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"I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying."
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"Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street."
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