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Quotes by Actor
"The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss."
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
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"I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore."
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"I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?"
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"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear."
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"I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that."
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"The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke."
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"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."
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"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."
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"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
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"My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities."
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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
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"So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation."
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"I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true."
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"When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things."
Work,
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"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
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"When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'"
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"But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites."
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"Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated."
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"I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend."
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"My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy."
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"The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts."
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"You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head."
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"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."
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"I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television."
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"Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America."
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"I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility."
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"Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."
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"I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone."
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"My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx."
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"Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart."
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"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
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