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Quotes by Actor

"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."

"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."

"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."

"The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time."

"There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion."

"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."

"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."

"I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy."

"I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused."

"The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting."

"My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture."

"Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest."

"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
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