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Quotes by Actor

"We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big."

"I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss."

"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."

"I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease."
Hair,

"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."


"Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse."

"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities."

"I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure."


"Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop."

"I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous."

"I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture."
Want,

"If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem."


"We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool."

"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."

"Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment."


"If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay."


"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."

"I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them."

"I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one."


"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."

"Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus."

"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
Work,


"I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years."

"I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it."

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."

"I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening."
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