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Quotes by Actor

"My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture."

"I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility."


"If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession."

"It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away."


"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."


"I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made."

"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."

"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."


"If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky."

"To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it."

"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."

"I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about."

"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."

"I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football."

"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints."


"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76."

"At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity."

"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."

"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."

"What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity."

"They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately."

"Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway."


"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."

"It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies."

"When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently."

"At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers."
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