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I just had a light bulb moment


...and realized he is one of my favorite actors of all time.


never considered him that way all these years, but watching homegrown just now i realized, yeah, i really dig his work.

good dude. great career. way to go, John.

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he is great in so many things he has done

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He's amazing

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He's always great. He's one of those actors that you're always excited to see in a movie or a tv show. A class act.

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Hehe, something similar happened with me too in the last month or so. As a kid I thought about him as a weird, kind of a creepy guy, with an odd hairdo. (I guess Buckaroo Banzai didn't help this image much). I've never seen 3rd Rock before, but I've started watching it and come to understand what a great guy he is, with killer comedic sense.
If you grow up seeing a great actor mostly as an evil bad guy, like him in Cliffhanger, you can't separate the actor from a character, and i guess I somehow hated him how vile and slimy he was... Seeing him as the nicest and funniest guy is such a relief. :)

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