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Quotes by Actor

"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."

"No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film."
Film,

"I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill."

"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."

"Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God."

"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
Time,

"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around."


"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."

"I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want."

"An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie."

"I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before."

"The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews."

"Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you."


"I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered."

"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."


"AH I know is what I see in the papers."

"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience."


"Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it."

"Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!"


"Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out."

"I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive."

"I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days."

"My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me."


"The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby."

"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects."
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