Crime Quote by Powers Boothe

“We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.”

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I was raised a proper Southern boy.

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I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

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When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

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I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out…

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Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.

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I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.

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I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work…

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