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" I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction. "

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" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "

" I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up. "

" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "

" I love great animation. "

" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "

" I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest. "

" I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. "

" I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras. "

" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "

" Well, I don't have an agenda. "

" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "

" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "

" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "

" I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. "

" I'm very happy. "

" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "

" I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. "

" I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember. "

" I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times. "

" I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire. "

" I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. "

" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "

" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "

" I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. "

" I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. "

" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "

" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "

" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "

Self-Confidence

" The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. "