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Quotes by Actor

"I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way."
Hope,

"Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices."

"Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."

"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that."

"Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people."


"There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character."

"I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters."


"The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations."

"The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with."

"I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them."


"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."


"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."

"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."


"I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you."


"I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give."
Work,


"I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself."

"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more."

"I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening."

"Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one."


"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer."

"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."

"Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece."

"Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business."

"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."

"I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh."
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