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" Actors will say 'yes' to anything. "
Michael Keaton
Say
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" I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic. "
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" David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out. "
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" No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies. "
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" To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened. "
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" I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key. "
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" My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad. "
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" I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, trying at this, failing at that, being good in some things, not so good in others. It's kind of amazing that people are still sticking by me. When they come up to me in the street, I just want to write them all cheques. "
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" I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh. "
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" I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room. "
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" If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer. "
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" I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment. "
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" All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite. "
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Sisters
Compare
Cool
" The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough. "
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Come
Kind
Majority
" I went through a lazy period. "
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Period
Lazy
Through
" I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I'd stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at night. Just blow in. My mom and dad never really cared much. It was okay. We were pretty free to roam. I mean, I had no concept of stopping play. It just didn't occur to anyone. "
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Free
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" I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.' "
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Know
You
Remember
" I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone. "
Michael Keaton
Zone
Actor
Just
" I don't know how to not be outside since I was a little kid. "
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Outside
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" There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with. "
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" I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. "
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Out
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" Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this? "
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You
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" If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good. "
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" Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be. "
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Day
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" The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more. "
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Original
Night
Sometimes
" Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy. "
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" There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love. "
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You
Two
" We had four guys in the family, so somebody was always hitting somebody or chasing somebody or getting mad or fighting or wrestling - that was just what you did. So when you're the youngest, it's good for you. You figure out real early how to get out of headlocks and holds. "
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" High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun. "
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" Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry. "
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