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Quotes
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand
madmen.
I have no
interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted
to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Blank face is fine.the computer works faster than the brain,don't forget.The art of acting is not to act.Once you show them more,what you show them,in fact is bad acting.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
I've got no
need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
I was lousy in school. Real screwed up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand
madmen.
Why love if
losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have
lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
He is just like I was at his
age. - talking about Gary Oldman
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
I was lousy in school. Real
screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other
kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what
I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
I once asked a Jesuit priest
what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, 'fuck it,' as in 'fuck
it; it's in God's hands.'
The Welsh people have a talent
for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack
heart.
To hell with this stupid show
business, this ridiculous showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look
back and see a desert wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment.
Everything was a fake.
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
America has been very generous
to me, magnanimous really. I thought it would be good to give something
back. It was a decision of the heart. - On becoming a U.S. citizen in
2000
I was really sort of on a
prolonged acid trip. I saw things and had peculiar quasi-religious
experiences. I thought I was John The Baptist, and I would talk to the
sea at Malibu and the sea would talk back to me. It was weird. - on his
days as alcoholic while he was hooked on Mexican spirit tequila.
I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
I think he might be a very
interesting person to have lunch with, provided that you weren't the
lunch. - On his most famous character, Dr. Hannibal Lecter
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