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Quotes by Actor

"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there."

"I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway."


"Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse."

"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."

"Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out."

"I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways."
Film,

"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."

"The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes."

"I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such."


"Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress."

"You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image."

"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."

"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."

"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work."

"All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time."

"I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with."

"There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations."


"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

"But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen."

"I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar."

"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."


"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."

"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."

"What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows."


"I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch."
Sons,


"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."


"It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre."


"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."
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