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Quotes by Actor
"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience."
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"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."
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"It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it."
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"Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy."
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"Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it."
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"Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more."
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"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
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"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
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"Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs."
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"My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it."
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"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre."
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"Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood."
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"The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me."
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"Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor."
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"The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation."
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"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."
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"So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?"
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"I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role."
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"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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"I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors."
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"I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people."
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"I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do."
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"When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do."
Food,
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"I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state."
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"I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors."
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"It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen."
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"The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well."
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"You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home."
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"Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials."
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"I actually like working with the other three actors on the show."
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"I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine."
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