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Quotes by Actor

"Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it."

"I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash."

"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."


"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."

"I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again."

"David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work."
Work,


"I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field."


"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die."


"I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op."


"I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them."

"We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list."


"I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it."

"I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different."


"That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients."
Old,


"People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal."

"I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life."

"I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization."

"Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry."

"Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top."

"I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close."

"I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training."

"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."

"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."


"Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia."


"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."


"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with."
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