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Quotes by Actor
"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."
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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
Pen,
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"Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse."
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"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation."
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"Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world."
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"It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun."
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"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."
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"Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip."
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"I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian."
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"But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that."
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"She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience."
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"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche."
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"We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden."
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"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
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"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
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"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff."
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"John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning."
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"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
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"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio."
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"I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is."
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"When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way."
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"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!"
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"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
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"It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful."
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"There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail."
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"Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them."
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"I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having."
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"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."
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"I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides."
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