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Quotes by Actor
"Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?"
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"Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation."
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"The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered."
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"Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us."
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"When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself."
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"I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano."
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"I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want."
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"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom."
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"I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over."
Now,
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"The only thing you owe the public is a good performance."
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"I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done."
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"When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television."
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"I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile."
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"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
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"This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors."
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"People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh."
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"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow."
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"I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour."
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"If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years."
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"And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies."
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"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
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"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference."
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"It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there."
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"I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career."
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"Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine."
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"Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along."
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"I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it."
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"The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever."
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