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Quotes by Actor

"That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up."

"I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!"

"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."

"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with."

"Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will."

"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."

"If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma."

"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."

"My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life."
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"It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot."

"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."

"I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen."


"It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet."

"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."

"I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through."

"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film."

"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."

"I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes."


"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs."

"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it."

"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour."

"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."

"But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today."

"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."

"Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything."


"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."


"The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting."

"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house."


"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."

"I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing."
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