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Quotes by Actor
"I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself."
136
"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
135
"Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards."
133
"You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day."
132
"I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making."
132
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."
132
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
130
"Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself."
128
"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it."
128
"Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet."
127
"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."
126
"The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for."
126
"I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment."
125
"I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots."
124
"We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that."
123
"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."
122
"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that."
119
"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
118
"I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints."
118
"I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice."
115
"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
114
"I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?"
114
"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs."
114
"It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man."
114
"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
113
"I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy."
111
"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."
109
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