David Carradine

Actor

United States

1936 - 2009

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I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.
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Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.
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I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.
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My role in kung fu - in the art of kung fu, not the series - is not as a practitioner. My role is that of an evangelist, which is an entirely different thing.
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There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
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Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.
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I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.
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I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.
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I'm like a renegade and that rubs people wrong.
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I'm analytical as an actor, and one of the things Quentin did was free me from that.
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