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Quotes by Actor

"Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!"


"God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

"I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me."

"All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different."

"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."

"I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience."


"And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense."

"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject."


"I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since."

"I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples."

"Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely."

"Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players."

"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."


"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point."


"You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament."

"I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury."

"I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it."

"I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one."

"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired."


"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso."

"The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over."


"Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese."

"I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage."
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