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Quotes by Actor

"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."

"It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set."

"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment."

"And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous."

"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."

"I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories."

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."

"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else."

"What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better."

"Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it."


"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."

"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."

"In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves."


"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."

"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"
Love,

"So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing."

"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

"When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection."

"You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect."

"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."

"I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well."


"Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television."

"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."

"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit."

"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."


"My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year."
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