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Quotes by Actor

"In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing."

"I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique."

"And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that."


"I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have."

"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."

"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout."

"What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire."

"Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does."


"I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having."

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."


"Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with."

"With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower."

"There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it."

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

"That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen."

"I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent."


"I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else."
Help,

"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."

"To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap."

"Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that."

"The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see."

"We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance."
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