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Quotes by Actor
"I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with."
38
"I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself."
38
"Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time."
38
"With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office."
38
"But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision."
38
"I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status."
38
"When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor."
38
"Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television."
38
"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."
38
"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
38
"I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move."
38
"Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living."
38
"I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me."
38
"I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show."
38
"I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed."
38
"Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds."
Law,
38
"It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing."
38
"You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance."
38
"I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy."
38
"I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive."
38
"It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there."
38
"I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying."
38
"Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way."
38
"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
38
"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."
38
"There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could."
38
"But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club."
Age,
38
"If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film."
38
"You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life."
38
"You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission."
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