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Quotes by Actor


"Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it."

"I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything."
Time,


"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects."


"Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study."

"My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession."

"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."

"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."


"I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny."

"Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him."


"I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story."
Post,

"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."


"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."
May,


"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."

"You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help."

"I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity."

"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."

"We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath."

"They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse."

"But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays."


"I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more."


"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."


"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess."

"I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker."

"As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist."
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