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Quotes by Actor
"The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters."
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"We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet."
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"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever."
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"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
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"I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!"
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"The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'"
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"The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that."
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"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
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"When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances."
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"Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour."
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"In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president."
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"I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful."
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"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."
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"If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it."
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"I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk."
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"Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it."
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"I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast."
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"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."
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"The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights."
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"The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft."
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"I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure."
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"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."
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"Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day."
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"Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great."
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"I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet."
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