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Quotes by Actor

"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."

"Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet."

"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."

"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."

"The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love."

"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

"Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept."

"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."

"Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?"

"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
Want,

"You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence."


"I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me."

"I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul."


"Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box."

"It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person."
Road,

"I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows."

"And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done."
Mail,

"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."

"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."

"Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh."

"We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look."


"I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom."

"You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head."
Feet,

"I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me."
Now,


"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."

"Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others."
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