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Quotes by Actor

"Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it."

"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."


"Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights."

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

"I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism."

"It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it."

"I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life."

"A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen."

"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."

"In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go."

"Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'"

"Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in."

"Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech."

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

"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 saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me."
Men,

"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."

"It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows."

"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."

"There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else."


"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."

"I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around."

"I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly."

"Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie."
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