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Quotes by Actor
"Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing."
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"It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions."
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"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television."
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"I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you."
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"Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things."
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"Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor."
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"I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back."
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"I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady."
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"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them."
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"I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep."
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"For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten."
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"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."
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"I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation."
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"You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap."
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"By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract."
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"I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself."
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"You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway."
God,
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"I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you."
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"I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'."
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