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Quotes by Actor

"The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted."


"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked."

"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."

"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."

"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."

"Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other."

"I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything."

"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way."

"Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise."

"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."

"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."


"If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production."

"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."

"Religion has a good place and it has its good people."

"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."

"You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'"
Home,

"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."

"Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance."

"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."

"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."


"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."

"First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III."


"My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors."

"I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there."

"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."

"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."


"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."

"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."


"We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?"

"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."

"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
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