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Quotes by Actor
"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
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"It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me."
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"I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying."
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"And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show."
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"Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you."
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"I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels."
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"You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals."
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"You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family."
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"I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?"
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"You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies."
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"The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears."
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"Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well."
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"Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised."
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"I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it."
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"I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days."
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"I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job."
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"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
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"As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you."
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"I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives."
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"This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly."
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"Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there."
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"I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work."
Work,
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"But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist."
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"I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with."
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