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Quotes by Actor


"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."

"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."

"I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34."

"Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something."


"I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad."


"It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it."


"I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?"

"I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook."

"I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done."

"I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends."

"Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines."


"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."

"We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be."

"He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you."

"Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense."

"It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way."


"The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'"


"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."


"People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words."

"I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor."

"From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life."

"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights."

"Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience."


"Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical."

"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."

"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work."
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