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Quotes by Actor


"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again."

"I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish."
Life,

"Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother."

"I've been working with photography for many years."

"I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind."

"Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message."


"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."

"The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life."

"Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere."

"Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in."


"One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series."

"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."

"Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance."

"It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along."

"And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge."


"I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in."

"I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!"

"The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something."

"You cannot be this successful without having God on your side."

"You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back."

"I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously."


"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."

"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."

"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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