Anthony Edwards Quotes

Enjoy the top 23 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Anthony Edwards.

“I just spent a lot of time on ER for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left ER, I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, Lets go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.”
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“There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.”

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“Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.”

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“My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?”

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“It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.”

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“I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.”

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“Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain.”

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“'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.”

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“I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.”

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“I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.”

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You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

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“There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.”

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I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

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“Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.”

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“I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.”

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“I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.”

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“So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.”

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“To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.”

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“David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.”