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As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.
I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.
It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.
I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.
I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."
I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.
If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.
I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.
I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.
People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.
I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.
It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.
In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.
As an actor I'm rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. But this is a nice part.
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.
I don't have kids. Maybe that's kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.
We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.
I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.
I want to make movies on a soundstage. They close the door and it's nighttime, daytime. If it has to rain, they make the rain. That's what I like.
I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.
When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.
I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.