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Quotes by Actor

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

"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."

"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."

"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."

"Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know."

"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."

"I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way."

"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."

"You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you."

"Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track."

"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."

"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."

"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."

"I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball."
Golf,

"I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful."


"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."

"The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge."

"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."

"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
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