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5960 Actor Quotes

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Any Fear Intimacy Person
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

Any Look People Want
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

Act How I Can Jobs
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

Hollywood Learned Long Long Time
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

First First Time Going Love
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Ability Away Great Just
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Advice Anybody Because Best
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

Baby Film Foreign Got
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
About Death I Think Irish
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I'm not hard to get along with.
Along Get Hard With
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Academy Feel Guy Last
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

Bad Been Like Many
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

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I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

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I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

Bad Comedians Death Dried
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Began Early Few Funny
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

Alike Any Character Had
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I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

Alternative Becoming Being Comedians
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

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I'm not familiar with the metric system.
Familiar Metric System
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

Actor Career Early Get
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Anything Butter Fact Few
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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

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My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

About Available Base Because
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I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
Down Had Humanity Reaction
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Anybody Fight Girlfriend Love
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We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Been Going Here Life
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As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Am Aware Body Exactly
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With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

Acting Great Horrible Just
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Acting Just Wardrobe Let
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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
Always Branch Comedian Going
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Girlfriend Lie Life Only
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All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

Doing End Go Great
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Against Fast Going Money
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

Fat Jack Jack Nicholson Nicholson
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Big Blues Delta Easy
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Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

Back Before Comedians Doing
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Bad Been Certain Develop
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To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Award Earned Every High
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There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Believe Get Know On-Screen
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I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

Affect Balance Because Continue
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