Actor Quotes

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

I love going out. I love partying.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.