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Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

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Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

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Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

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In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

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Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

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You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

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When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

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I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

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I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

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I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 16th, 1956

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