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Quotes by Actor
"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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"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."
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"What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself."
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"A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay."
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"This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really."
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"I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me."
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"I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism."
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"Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies."
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"I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process."
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"I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut."
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"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."
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"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
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"I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about."
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"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs."
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"From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour."
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"For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way."
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"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago."
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"When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on."
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"Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe."
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"I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me."
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"Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
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"I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them."
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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
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"Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives."
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"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"
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"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role."
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