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Quotes by Actor

"Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world."

"I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association."

"Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know."

"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."

"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives."

"I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him."
Care,

"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."

"Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were."

"Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai."

"I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor."


"To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are."


"I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful."

"I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk."
Folk,


"When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain."

"When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers."


"Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease."

"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."

"I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting."


"There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows."


"That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong."

"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."

"We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent."

"To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential."
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