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" I'm a full-time dad; I'm a part-time actor. "
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Actor
Dad
Full-Time
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" It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze 'em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from 'Sesame Street.' "
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" Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties. "
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" I love food, man! If it doesn't eat me first, I'll pretty much eat it. "
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" I've never seen 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' "
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" My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them. "
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" The first thing I did when my career started moving was to buy a small house. "
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" One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years. "
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" When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school. "
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Me
People
High School
" The '80s were all about 'Saturday Night's Main Event.' "
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Event
Saturday
Night
" High school's like another planet. "
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Planet
Another
Like
" Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on. "
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Quiet
Chill
Nothing
" I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job. "
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Feet
Pretty
Pitching
" My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge! "
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Family
Words
First
" When I was a kid, everybody loved Hulk Hogan, right? 'Eat your vitamins. Eat your vegetables.' Everybody over 25 hated him because he was corny, right? "
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Vegetables
Eat
Him
" I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books. "
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Books
Much
Really
" Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good. "
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Love
Good
Get
" A couple of years ago, right before I made 'Down to You,' there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything, that the goals I'd set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then. "
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Goals
" Girls in L.A. don't eat anything! I'll say, 'You look hungry. I'm not kissing you till you're full because I'm afraid you're going to bite my lip.' "
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Hungry
Look
Say
" I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I've had this idea of what a father should be, it's exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it. "
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Opportunity
" A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving. "
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Driving
Time
Me
" I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental. "
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" I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it. "
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Every
Did
" I really fight hard to make things film where they're supposed to be filmed. If something is supposed to be in New York, then it has to be in New York. "
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Fight
Hard
New
" The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now. "
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Like
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" When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one. "
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" I don't know what my daughter will become. "
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