Actor Quotes

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry t

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.