For some three decades now, Randy Quaid has been a mighty force in film and TV, a character actor extraordinaire, and a performer renowned for his eccentricity and wide taste in roles. Quaid enjoys going for broad effects, but he can bring them off in a great variety of emotional flavors and contexts; perhaps the best attempt to sum up his acting range and the expanse of his career is this noncommital sentence from his Wikipedia profile: "In 2007, Quaid portrayed King Carlos the IV in Goya's Ghosts, a role for which he learned to play the violin, and he starred in the comedy Ball’s Out: The Gary Houseman Story (2008) alongside Seann William Scott." Now it appears that the actor will be having that much more time to concentrate on movies; he's been banned for life from working in live theater by Actors' Equity. (The union also hit him with an $81,572 fine.)
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