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Quotes by Actor
"Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit."
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"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."
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"As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season."
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"If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed."
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"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."
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"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
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"Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right."
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"Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it."
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"Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done."
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"Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after."
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"In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision."
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"I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things."
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"Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail."
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"I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call."
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"There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can."
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"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
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"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling."
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"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do."
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"We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year."
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"I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater."
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"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life."
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"I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting."
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"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required."
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"There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him."
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"If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area."
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
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"Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans."
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"To make money buy some good stock hold it until it goes up and then sell it. If it doesn't go up don't buy it."
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