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Quotes by Actor

"I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?"

"The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon."

"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important."

"This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection."

"The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather."

"I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids."
Kids,


"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."

"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."

"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."

"It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all."

"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children."

"I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you."

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."


"I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."

"I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker."

"With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie."


"She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine."

"I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on."

"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."

"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."

"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."

"It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids."

"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."
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