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Quotes by Actor
"It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."
Poor,
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"When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected."
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"I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else."
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"Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually."
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"Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real."
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"Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child."
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"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer."
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"But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in."
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"LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight."
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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."
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"I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge."
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"Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."
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"And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television."
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"If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped."
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"I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."
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"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
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"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
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"Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire."
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"I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better."
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"I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for."
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"I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service."
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"I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging."
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"With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from."
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"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek."
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"As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote."
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"The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are."
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"Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end."
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"I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21."
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"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice."
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"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."
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"I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star."
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"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind."
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"When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company."
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"I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one."
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