Mark Hamill Quotes

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Mark Hamill

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 25, 1951

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

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I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.

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You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.

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I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.

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Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

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There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

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When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on 'General Hospital.' It was 1971 or '72. Then I didn't do animation until 'Batman.'

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I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.

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Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

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I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.

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When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

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