When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.
Holt McCallanyI had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.
Holt McCallanyAs an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.
Holt McCallanyI've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
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