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Quotes by Actor
"When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons."
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"I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really."
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"The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive."
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"How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?"
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"I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all."
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"With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do."
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"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."
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"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
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"It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before."
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"I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into."
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"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors."
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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
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"I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!"
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"I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild."
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"Consistency is very important when you're making films."
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"Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no."
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"I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players."
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"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
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"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."
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"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
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"I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!"
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"The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking."
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"Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication."
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"I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out."
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"As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience."
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"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character."
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"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
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"What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change."
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"I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning."
Will,
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