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Quotes by Actor

"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."

"Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise."

"One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself."

"I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say."


"We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter."

"Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me."

"I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do."

"I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us."

"If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two."

"I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move."
Now,


"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"

"I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues."

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays."

"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all."

"I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself."

"I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay."


"All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites."
Work,

"Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too."

"Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged."
Open,


"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."

"So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible."

"After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning."

"Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all."
Day,

"If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place."

"Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."
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