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Quotes by Actor

"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."

"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."

"When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things."

"To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano ."

"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."

"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."

"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."

"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."

"There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid."

"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."

"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."

"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."

"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."

"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."

"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town."

"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."

"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."

"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."

"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."

"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."

"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."

"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."

"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way."
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