Finn Quotes

(On his part in The Green Mile (1999)): I guess Wild Bill is a disgusting, racist, pedophile freak. But I`d been wanting to play a psycho, a juicy one. I saw him as Huck Finn meets Satan. The kind of part Gary Oldman or John Malkovich might play. It`s just a cool part.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don`t know they`re racist.

My first three years, I did not have one other Finn on my team. I can tell you, I already feel more at home here.

(Finn, in an interview with Newsday last winter, defended his contracts, saying he often paid for things himself. He said his program is proven and operates in 16 other school districts nationwide.) The notion that I was making too much money ... well, you don`t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate and I`m nobody`s dummy, ... I gave back to Hempstead a lot more than I got.

(What to watch: Tommy Finn won`t be in uniform for the defending Class 3A state champs. But neither will be Casey Martin or slew of other Trojan offensive guns. Last year, Finn led a 99-yard drive that ate up 7 1/2 minutes and threw a TD pass with 10.1 seconds left for the 18-13 win. Both programs lost the kitchen sink to graduation, but both teams do have a lot of talent, though unknown at this point. Andrean has eight returning starters on defense. But the `Niners didn`t run a ball past the line of scrimmage against Penn last week.) We have to do everything we can to not lose the game. If we line up right, don`t jump offsides, get people in the right place, we can compete with just about everyone, ... They have more coming back in the trenches, but we have a lot of kids who can make big plays. Skill-wise I think we`re as good as them.

It`s so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn`t say, Yours truly, at the end.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.