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Quotes by Actor
"If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big."
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"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever."
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"What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate."
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"I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about."
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"When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?"
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"Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me."
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"I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations."
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"I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me."
Mind,
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"So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea."
Idea,
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"Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville."
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"I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to."
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"I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it."
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"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
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"I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him."
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"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."
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"There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character."
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"Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point."
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"As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much."
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"I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'"
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"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."
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"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."
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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
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"I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing."
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"But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes."
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"Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton."
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"The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie."
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"I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars."
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