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Quotes by Actor

"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
Film,


"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."

"I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person."

"Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'"

"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."

"Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies."

"Sylvester Stallone is very funny and he's a great guy to hang out with."

"I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat."

"I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape."

"But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud."

"Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had."

"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."

"Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me."

"The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction."

"I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals."

"One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour."


"This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?"


"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
Work,

"I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way."


"I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important."

"If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out."

"It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own."

"I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing."

"I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it."

"When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage."


"I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school."


"Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it."


"A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen."

"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."
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