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Quotes by Actor

"I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem."

"If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens."

"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."

"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."

"I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing."

"I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day."

"My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age."


"Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength."

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."

"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."


"I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all."

"Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it."

"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."

"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."

"I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned."

"Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block."

"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"

"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was."

"It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate."

"I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down."

"Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed."

"Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie."

"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."

"If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it."

"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff."

"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."

"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work."

"My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness."

"Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying."

"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."

"You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself."
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