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15 quotes by Jackie Earle Haley

Jackie Earle Haley (born Jack Earle Haley; July 14, 1961) is an American film actor. An Academy Award nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Moocher in Breaking Away, Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears, pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children, the vigilante Rorschach in Watchmen, and horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. He also starred as Guerrero in Fox's drama Human Target. He also starred as...
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When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's... →

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I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could... →

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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to... →

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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in... →

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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's... →

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That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was... →

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I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You... →

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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too... →

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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.

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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out... →

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I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a... →

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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was... →

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