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Quotes by Actor

"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you."

"Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed."


"I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people."

"It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity."

"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."

"I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all."


"The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it."

"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity."

"I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye."

"I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'"


"Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy."

"I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones."

"A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same."

"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere."

"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others."


"There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism."

"I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?"

"When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there."

"Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up."


"It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing."

"All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else."
Work,

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

"I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre."

"People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors."


"I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change."
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