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Quotes by Actor

"I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!"

"I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that."

"The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested."

"You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible."


"The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!"

"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."

"Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy."

"Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory."


"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."


"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done."

"Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go."
Bed,


"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."


"I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous."

"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."

"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."

"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."

"With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique."

"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"

"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."


"Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes."

"I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan."
Wife,

"It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else."

"I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know."
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