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Quotes by Actor

"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."

"They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years."

"There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great."

"I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences."

"The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level."

"I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside."

"I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch."

"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."

"O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible."

"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."

"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case."

"We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it."

"It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself."

"Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show."

"I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet."

"For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me."

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

"If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from."


"I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree."

"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."

"When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important."

"So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot."


"These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with."


"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."

"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing."

"I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music."

"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."

"I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic."

"Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible."

"If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?"

"I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics."

"You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many."


"We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out."

"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace."
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