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Quotes by Actor

"You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff."

"I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance."

"There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing."

"I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it."

"You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air."

"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."

"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."

"You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it."

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."


"I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence."

"I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing."

"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."


"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."


"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."

"My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!"

"I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself."

"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."

"I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest."


"As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."
Film,


"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."

"You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!"

"I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride."

"If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?"

"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."

"I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is."


"I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man."
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