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Quotes by Actor

"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

"I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment."

"It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man."

"I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots."

"I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force."

"I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful."

"I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

"Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are."

"I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?"

"Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet."

"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."

"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."

"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."

"I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am."

"Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her."

"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."

"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
Life,

"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."

"My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really."

"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
Old,

"Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!"

"If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?"

"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
Man,

"In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended."

"We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?"

"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."

"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."

"Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!"

"I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."

"If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that."

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

"Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world."
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