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Quotes by Actor
"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."
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"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."
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"Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much."
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"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel."
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"You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff."
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"With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now."
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"The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'"
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"I never get tired of hearing compliments."
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"I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now."
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"There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard."
Hurt,
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"I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of."
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"I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck."
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"Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not."
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"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."
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"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard."
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"I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing."
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"So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered."
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"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"
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"Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings."
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"I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months."
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"I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries."
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"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
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"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."
Work,
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"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."
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"I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special."
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"He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen."
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"Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening."
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