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Quotes by Actor

"One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts."

"The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist."


"I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet."


"It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit."

"I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer."

"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there."

"Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words."

"I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show."

"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single."

"And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat."

"It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did."

"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."


"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."

"I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected."

"I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years."


"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."


"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."

"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."

"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."

"You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice."

"When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it."

"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience."

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."


"The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats."
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