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Quotes by Actor

"It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door."


"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."

"I was initially a leading man, but only on television."

"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."
Film,

"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."

"When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way."


"Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky."

"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."

"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."

"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."

"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."

"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."

"If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3."

"I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning."

"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."

"In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera."

"I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."

"Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing."

"What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love."


"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."

"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."


"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."

"But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level."


"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."


"In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it."


"There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do."

"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it."

"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out."

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."


"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker."
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