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Quotes by Actor

"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."

"I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game."

"Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way."

"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."

"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."

"If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination."

"The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances."
Risk,


"Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake."

"We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation."

"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."

"Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on."
Fact,

"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."

"I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am."

"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."


"We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks."


"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

"It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level."

"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."


"Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do."

"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."

"I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience."

"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"


"I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed."

"I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems."

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."

"By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base."

"I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked."
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