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Quotes by Actor

"One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff."

"I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast."
God,

"People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people."

"I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life."
Life,

"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."


"I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do."


"It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter."

"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do."

"That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people."

"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."

"When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense."


"But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?"


"The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult."


"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
Film,

"I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me."

"There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one."

"It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies."

"It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision."

"Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me."


"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise."


"I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself."


"I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do."

"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say."

"The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent."
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