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Quotes by Actor


"I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people."

"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do."

"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."

"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."

"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."

"I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response."

"God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group."

"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good."

"There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions."

"We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world."

"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."

"In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around."

"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."

"If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS."

"The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it."

"They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques."
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"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."

"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."

"You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me."

"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."

"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."

"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express."

"I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do."

"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."

"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show."
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