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Quotes by Actor

"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."

"I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor."

"My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it."

"I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives."

"My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way."


"Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people."

"In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires."

"I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of."

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story."

"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."


"It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting."

"I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion."

"I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me."

"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."


"In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened."

"We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny."

"I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too."

"I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it."


"Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38."

"The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time."

"I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about."


"There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle."

"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."

"I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners."
Ski,

"And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process."

"I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get."

"He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like."

"I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much."

"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."
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