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Quotes by Actor

"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
Man,


"I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies."

"We children learned responsibility automatically."

"I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company."

"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."

"I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid."

"It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play."

"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."

"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'"

"I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words."

"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
Work,

"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.'"

"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"


"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."

"You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another."

"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us."

"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."

"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."


"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
Now,

"A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing."

"They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken."

"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."


"You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself."

"I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it."
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