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April 23rd, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, E Comments Off

Eric Bogosian

It’s a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I’m making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
Eric Bogosian

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that’s out there in the world, that I can’t seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
Eric Bogosian

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
Eric Bogosian

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
Eric Bogosian

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
Eric Bogosian

I’m always surprised by things that happen to my work.
Eric Bogosian

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs – and I’m not the first person to say this, it’s been said over and over again in literature – there’s a sense of normalcy.
Eric Bogosian

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it’ll all be forgotten.
Eric Bogosian

I don’t know anybody who does what I do. I’m very underground.
Eric Bogosian

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
Eric Bogosian

I write, but I also act.
Eric Bogosian

Ensemble is hard to do. It’s like 3-D chess.
Eric Bogosian

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
Eric Bogosian

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can’t quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that’s what the deal is with me.
Eric Bogosian

April 18th, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, J No Comments »

Jason Biggs

I’ve heard every pie joke in the book. I’m still waiting for an original one.
Jason Biggs

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
Jason Biggs

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet – especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
Jason Biggs

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.
Jason Biggs

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
Jason Biggs

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.
Jason Biggs

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I’m playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
Jason Biggs

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.
Jason Biggs

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I’ll try that.
Jason Biggs

Well, I’m never happier than when I’m acting.
Jason Biggs

I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.
Jason Biggs

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls’ point of view, I’ve heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.
Jason Biggs

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
Jason Biggs

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.
Jason Biggs

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
Jason Biggs

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.
Jason Biggs

Well, I’m proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
Jason Biggs

I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.
Jason Biggs

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.
Jason Biggs

I don’t know if you’ll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.
Jason Biggs

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
Jason Biggs

Like anyone who goes to college, you’re leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you’re starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
Jason Biggs

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned.
Jason Biggs

April 17th, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, C No Comments »

Corbin Bleu

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much – it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
Corbin Bleu

You’ve got to be fine with who you are.
Corbin Bleu

Everybody at school knew who I was because I’m just a really friendly person.
Corbin Bleu

I’m a very outgoing person. I’m always happy, I’m one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they’d say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.
Corbin Bleu

Kids look up to me, and it’s really incredible to be in that position.
Corbin Bleu

Everyone is different, but I’m not standoffish at all. I’m not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I’ll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer’s no, I’m totally cool with it.
Corbin Bleu

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It’s a lot of fun.
Corbin Bleu

My favorite show is America’s Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I’m laughing my head off!
Corbin Bleu

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.
Corbin Bleu

April 2nd, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, R No Comments »

Robert Blake

Right now, I’m worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, ‘Uncle Sam, I’m going to pay you 25 grand a month.’
Robert Blake

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.
Robert Blake

I’m a human being, I’m not a machine. I’m 72. I’m dyslexic.
Robert Blake

What are they going to do to me that they haven’t done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What’s left for them to take?
Robert Blake

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.
Robert Blake

Don’t give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.
Robert Blake

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.
Robert Blake

January 27th, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, D No Comments »

Dan Blocker

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon – no good for a damn thing.
Dan Blocker

 

January 22nd, 2012 A, Actor, Author Types, Authors No Comments »

Ahmed Best

I’m recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we’ll shop it around to.
Ahmed Best

It doesn’t bother me that people are stupid. I’m not stupid.
Ahmed Best

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
Ahmed Best

I’m going to move on and do other things. My life isn’t going to be about Jar Jar Binks.
Ahmed Best

 

January 22nd, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, O No Comments »

Orlando Bloom

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they’re so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Orlando Bloom

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
Orlando Bloom

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn’t make it any less weird though.
Orlando Bloom

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
Orlando Bloom

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
Orlando Bloom

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that’s the way they’re done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
Orlando Bloom

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
Orlando Bloom

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
Orlando Bloom

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
Orlando Bloom

People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
Orlando Bloom

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It’s an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
Orlando Bloom

I’m quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That’s been my approach, for the most part.
Orlando Bloom

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
Orlando Bloom

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
Orlando Bloom

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
Orlando Bloom

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Orlando Bloom

Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
Orlando Bloom

Elves are cool, man.
Orlando Bloom

There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.
Orlando Bloom

Vig used to call me ‘Elf boy’, and I’d call him ‘filthy human’. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he’d say to me, ‘Oh, go manicure your nails.’
Orlando Bloom

Whatever happens in life is fine – just trust in that.
Orlando Bloom

If life isn’t about human beings and living in harmony, then I don’t know what it’s about.
Orlando Bloom

Movies like that aren’t about the visual effects and explosions. They’re human stories about family, about life, about death.
Orlando Bloom

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you’re having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Orlando Bloom

You don’t improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
Orlando Bloom

When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
Orlando Bloom

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
Orlando Bloom

January 20th, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, J No Comments »

Jack Black

There’s nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you’re gonna eat it.
Jack Black

I’d rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
Jack Black

We’re in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let’s face it, that’s it.
Jack Black

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack Black

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It’s for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
Jack Black

 

January 18th, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, B No Comments »

Bill Bixby

TV is a major force in our lives – a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Bill Bixby

Viewers can’t expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let’s face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by ‘beefing’.
Bill Bixby

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
Bill Bixby

Situation comedies are old-fashioned – they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
Bill Bixby

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don’t like what has happened to the American male.
Bill Bixby

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don’t really vote in television, you’re never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.
Bill Bixby

 

January 16th, 2012 Actor, Author Types, Authors, M No Comments »

Michael Biehn

I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.
Michael Biehn

I’d rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don’t really care for.
Michael Biehn

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
Michael Biehn

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.
Michael Biehn

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork ‘n.
Michael Biehn

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I’m much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.
Michael Biehn

I don’t have a computer. I don’t know anything about that. I don’t even know what a website is.
Michael Biehn

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.
Michael Biehn

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
Michael Biehn

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.
Michael Biehn