"I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music."
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"I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50."
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"I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about."
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"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
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"There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street."
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"SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking."
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"A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly."
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"I have a natural swagger."
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"There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars."
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"Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic."
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"There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same."
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"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent."
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"Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live."
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"The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously."
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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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"I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet."
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"Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing."
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"I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me."
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"You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty."
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"I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood."
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