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" I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago. "

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" I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows. "

" I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character. "

" I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.' "

" Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man. "

" I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up. "

" Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works. "

" You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it. "

" If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine. "

" We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain. "

" You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director. "

" My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know? "

" I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice. "

" I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter. "

" I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me. "

" Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by. "

" People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago. "

" I have no message or answers to social questions. "

" When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York. "

" I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? "

" The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody. "

" When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything. "

" Change never bothers me, not really. "

" Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director. "

" I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal. "

" I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things. "

" Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are. "

" What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. "

" I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh. "

" I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was. "