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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money. "

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

" I was a policeman for 18 years. "

" I never jumped into anything, and I never liked being cajoled into anything. I've pretty much always done things because I wanted to do them. "

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

" 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. "

" My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman. "

" I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. "

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

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

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" For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind. "

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" 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. "

" There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. "

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

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" You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost. "

" I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words. "

" 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. "