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A Fella Who Accepts Himself And Is Relaxed Into Who He Is - That Appeals To People.
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A Fella Who Accepts Himself And Is Relaxed Into Who He Is - That Appeals To People.

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Thinking
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Nominations
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America
Life's Picking Up Speed.
Speed
You Know, It's Kind Of A Shame In A Way But The More Seasoned Directors A Lot Of Times Have More Difficult Getting A Job Than First Time Guys. New Kid On The Block Kind Of Thing.
Jobs
Block
Kids
I'm Drawn To The Path Of Least Resistance.
Path
Resistance
Path Of Least Resistance
This Idea Of How Everything Is Interconnected, And The Impermanence Of Things.. It Sums Up The Human Condition To Me, And It Helps Me On My Path.
Ideas
Path
Helping
Yeah I Loved, As A Kid Growing Up, I Loved Science-fiction.
Growing Up
Kids
Fiction
Well, There Are All Kinds Of Gutters. Life Will Supply You With Gutters.
Gutters
Kind
All Kinds
That's One Of The Cool Things About Fame. You Have An Affect On Society And Where It Goes.
Fame
Cool Things
When I Was Really Young, My Mom Enrolled Me In Dance Classes. "mom, I'm Too Young To Dance," I Told Her. She Kind Of Forced Me, But I Ended Up Loving It, And After The first Lesson I Came Back And Said, "come On, Mom, I'll Show You The Box Step." That Introduced Me Not Just To Dancing But Also To Working With Someone Without Having A Goal.
Mom
Class
Dancing
If You're Like Me, I Get Hooked Into To-do Lists, You Know. I'll Say I Checked That Off. Okay, I Did That. And You Have All These Things You're Doing.
Lists
Okay
Like Me
I've Done Several Commercials And I've Done Voiceovers For Documentaries.
Done
Documentaries
I Love Westerns, I'd Love To Make More Of Them.
Normally, After A Movie, You Know, You Don't Want To Get Up And Do Another One Right Away. That Kind Of Pretend Muscle Or Whatever You Use Making Movies Is Kind Of, You Know, Spent. And You Have Other Things To Do.
Use
Want
Kind
I Like To Know Where The Camera Is.
Cameras
Knows
It's A Wonderful Metaphor, Catching A Wave, For How You Can Look At Other Challenges In Your Life.
Challenges
Looks
Wonderful
Kevin Bacon And I Recently Worked On A Move Together, R.i.p.d. Just Before We'd Begin A Scene, When All Of Us Would Feel The Normal Anxiety That Actors Feel Be- Fore They Start To Perform, Kevin Would Look At Me And The Other Actors With A Very Serious Expression On His Face And Say: "remember, Everything Depends On This!" It Would Make Us All Laugh. On The One Hand, It's Not True Of Course, But On The Other, Everything Does Depend On This, On Just This Moment And Our Attitude Toward This Moment.
Attitude
Moving
Remembers Everything
Sometimes, You Can Not Click With Somebody, And It Can Feel Awkward.
Awkward
Sometimes
Clicks
My Brother's My Teacher, My Mentor, And We Both Learnt All The Acting Basics From Our Father.
Teacher
Brother
Father
One Of The Things I Want To Do That's Outside The Realm Of Acting And The Arts - Although Both Have Their Place In This - Is Ending Childhood Hunger Here In America.
Art
America
Childhood
The More Space And Emptiness You Can Create In Yourself, Then You Can Let The Rest Of The World Come In And Fill You Up.
Space
World
Emptiness
Work Takes Me Away From My Wife, Sue, And My Life In Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara
Wife
Take Me Away
The More Nervous You Get, The More Worried You Get About Something... Maybe You Just Need To Take A Nap.
Naps
Needs
Nervous
Like Most Kids, You Don't Want To Do What Your Folks Want You To Do. You've Got Your Own Thing.
Kids
Want
Folks
I Like To Think Of Myself As A Character Actor, Though There's Some Redundancy In That...
Character
Thinking
Actors
Words Fall Short Sometimes.
Fall
Sometimes
Everybody Loses A Couple, And You Either Pack It Up And Go Home Or You Keep On Fighting.
Couple
Home
Fighting
I Think My Love Of Journalizing My Life Comes From My Mom.
Mom
Mother
Thinking
I Just Find My Creativity Manifesting A Bunch Of Different Ways.
Creativity
Different
Way
Public Charities, Foodbanks And Church Pantries Are Doing More Than Ever Before, But They Can't Keep Up With The Need. We Can Never End Hunger Only Through The Wonderful Work Of Local Charities. Like Other Western Democracies, We Must End Our National Problem Of Hunger Through National And Political Leadership. Charity Is Nice For Some Things, But Not As A Way To Feed A Nation. We Don't Protect Our National Security Through Charity, And We Shouldn't Protect Our Families And Children That Way Either.
Children
Nice
Inspiration
Myths Are Wonderful - They Really Tell The Stories That Connect All Of Us And Teach Us So Much.
Stories
Wonderful
Teach
Sure, I Get The Blues. But What I Try To Do, Is Apply Joy To The Blues, You Know? I Don't Know If It's A Technique, Or Just Being Bent That Way, Being Raised By The Folks I Was Raised By.
Joy
Trying
Technique
Fame Really Works Against Actors, In A Way, Because Our Anonymity Is A Wonderful Thing For Us.
Actors
Way
Wonderful
Thoughts Will Change And Shift Just Like The Wind And The Water When You're On The Boat; Thoughts Are No Different Than Anything Else.
Wind
Water
Different
Making A Film, It Uses A Certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I Don't Know What You Want To Call It. It Exhausts Something In Me, I Find. It Has To Be Really Something To Get Me Interested.
Use
Want
Film
I Do My Best To Hold The Director's Opinion Above My Own.
Directors
Opinion
My Own
I Used To Be Somebody. Now I’m Somebody Else.
Used
Used To Be
Whenever I Work On A Part, I Look At The World Through The Filter Of The Character And I Pick Things They Might Use Through My Observations Of Real Life.
Real
Character
Might Use
Mania Is A Wonderful Feeling.
Feelings
Wonderful
Mania
Yeah, I Loved Ray Bradbury.
Rays
Yeah
Bradbury
I Had Success As An Actor Relatively Early. When I Was 22, I Got Nominated For An Academy Award For The Last Picture Show, So That Road, You Know, Had The Least Resistance. I Was Doing My Music All That Time, But It's Pretty Hard To Turn Down These Great Movie Offers. And My Father Counseled Me; He Said, "you Know, One Of The Wonderful Things About Acting Is That You Can Incorporate All Of Your Interests Into The Different Parts You Play." I'm Glad I Listened To The Old Man, Because That's The Way It Turned Out.
Father
Men
Acting
Technology Is Such A Broad Kind Of Term, It Really Applies To So Many Things, From The Electric Light To Running Cars On Oil. All Of These Different Things Can Be Called Technology. I Have Kind Of A Love-hate Relationship With It, As I Expect Most People Do. With The Computer, I Spend So Many Hours Sitting In Front Of A Computer.
Running
Hate
Technology
When You Start To Engage With Your Creative Processes, It Shakes Up All Your Impulses, And They All Kind Of Inform One Another.
Creative
Kind
Process
I Remember When I Was A Kid, With The Acting Thing, I Resented It Because, You Know, You Don't Want To Do What Your Parents Want You To Do. You Got Your Own Things. And The Whole Idea Of Getting A Job Because Of Who Your Father Is - That Didn't Feel Right. But After A While I Guess I Figured I Must Be Doing Something Right, Because People Wouldn't Keep Hiring Me If I Didn't Have Something To Give.
Father
Kids
People
If You Change Partners Every Time It Gets Tough Or You Get A Little Dissatisfied, Then I Don't Think You Get The Richness That's Available In A Long-term Relationship.
Thinking
Long
Littles
It's Funny. You Succeed, But Now Where Are You Gonna Go From There? I've Got To Keep Proving That I Can Laugh Or Cry More Real Each Time.
Funny
Real
Laughing
Nowadays It Seems More And More Like The 'business' In 'show Business' Is Underlined, And There Are Campaigns, And It's All Part Of Getting People In To See The Movies.
Movie
People
Campaigns
Sometimes I Think Of Movie Acting As Advanced Pretend.
Movie
Thinking
Acting
I Don't Have One Movie That Is My Favorite, I Have About 25-30 Favorites.
Movie
Actors
My Favorite
I Used To Read Comics When I Was A Kid.
Kids
Used
As Far As 3-d Goes, I Don't Know If That Will Stay Very Long Because Things Are Moving So Rapidly.
Moving
Long
Knows
I Don't Have Too Much Time To Jam With The Rest Of Hollywood.
Hollywood
Jam
Too Much
We Love Things That Are Convenient.
Convenient
I'm Kind Of An Idea Guy.
Ideas
Guy
Kind
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