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Quotes by Actor

"I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift."

"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well."

"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."

"There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create."
Love,


"But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was."


"I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting."

"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture."

"And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done."

"I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession."

"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos."

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

"When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate."

"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy."

"I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me."

"I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things."

"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."

"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."


"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."

"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."

"It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am."

"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it."
Love,


"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."

"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."

"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
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