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Quotes by Actor

"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really."

"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"

"I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond."

"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."

"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."

"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."

"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."

"I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."

"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."

"I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction."

"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."

"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap."

"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."

"What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance."

"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."

"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."

"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."

"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."

"The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie."

"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."

"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
Life,

"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."

"I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
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