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" Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. "

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" I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise. "

" I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention. "

" Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! "

" I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. "

" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "

" Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. "

" I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian. "

" How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. "

" Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. "

" I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. "

" I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you. "

" I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it. "

" When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them. "

" Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers. "

" I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI. "

" My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months. "

" I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts. "

" To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. "

" Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. "

" One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever. "

" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "

" Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. "

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" My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "

" We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. "

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" My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys. "