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

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" I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series. "

" 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. "

" Change never bothers me, not really. "

" I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them. "

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

" 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. "

" I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I love England and the historical aspect of it. "

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" I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. "

" I was a policeman for 18 years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements. "

" Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes. "