- Nov 07, 2020
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- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
- Nov 07, 2020
I say a lot of things I shouldn't say.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
- Animal Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids know me from 'Babe,' but usually it is 'L.A. Confidential' that people remember, which was the second film I did. I have worked with some really good people and the films that I've done for the most part have been good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.
- Animal Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020