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Quotes by Actor

"I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do."

"When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her."

"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
Work,

"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."

"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."

"My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am."

"We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely."

"I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions."

"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."

"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away."
Now,

"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."

"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece."

"I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends."

"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."


"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."

"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."

"I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."

"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."

"The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state."


"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."


"I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me."


"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."

"Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited."

"Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone."

"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."


"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."

"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."

"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."

"You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."

"Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel."
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