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Quotes by Actor

"I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing."

"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."

"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."


"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."


"When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf."

"I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script."

"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."


"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."

"Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist."


"In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there."

"I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject."

"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."

"One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

"Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling."

"It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it."

"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."

"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."


"Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though."

"And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable."


"I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set."
Hurt,
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