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As Far As The Lack Of Hits Goes, I Think Perhaps It's Because I've Played A Lot Of Different Roles And Have Not Created A Persona That The Public Can Latch On To. I Have Played Everything From Psychopathic Killers To Romantic Leading Men, And In Picking Such Diverse Roles I Have Avoided Typecasting.

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As Far As The Lack Of Hits Goes, I Think Perhaps It's Because I've Played A Lot Of Different Roles And Have Not Created A Persona That The Public Can Latch On To. I Have Played Everything From Psychopathic Killers To Romantic Leading Men, And In Picking Such Diverse Roles I Have Avoided Typecasting.

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Every Couple Of Years We'll Watch The Movie And It's Like Watching Home Movies, Seeing The Ranch On-screen. But That Movie Heaven's Gate, People Are Appreciating It More And More As Time Goes On.

The Hoopla With All The Award Season Is Kind Of Mind-boggling. It Kind Of Puts You On Your Heels.

I've Done Quite A Few Movies, I Generally Can Feel That I'm Not Right For The Role Or A General Fear If I Can Pull It Off, And Him Giving That "tag" So To Speak Gave Me The Confidence. Like That Miles Davis Line, "don't Worry About Mistakes, There Aren't Any." Once You Are The Part, You're The Guy, So You Can't Not Be The Guy Because You're It.

Memories Are Not Just About The Past. They Determine Our Future.

As Far As 3-d Goes, I Don't Know If That Will Stay Very Long Because Things Are Moving So Rapidly.

As Far As The Lack Of Hits Goes, I Think Perhaps It's Because I've Played A Lot Of Different Roles And Have Not Created A Persona That The Public Can Latch On To. I Have Played Everything From Psychopathic Killers To Romantic Leading Men, And In Picking Such Diverse Roles I Have Avoided Typecasting.

I'm Constantly Falling Deeper In Love With My Wife.

I Understand Professionals Have To Work When They Don't Feel Like It, And I Certainly Don't Feel Like It. So Maybe This Will Put The Nail In The Coffin For My Acting Career.

I Used To Be Somebody. Now I’m Somebody Else.

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.

She Was This Incredible Mom. With Each Of Her Kids, She Did Something Called `time,' Where She Would Spend An Hour Each Day Doing Whatever The Kid Wanted To Do, Whether It Was Play Spacemen Or `let's Go Into Your Makeup, And I'll Make You Up Like A Clown.' And As A Teenager You'd Be Like, `rub Me, Mom. Give Me A Massage.'

I Don't Have One Movie That Is My Favorite, I Have About 25-30 Favorites.

As Filmmakers, We're Constantly Always Looking For Something To Bring The Audience Deeper Into The Reality Of The Story We're Telling.

The More Nervous You Get, The More Worried You Get About Something... Maybe You Just Need To Take A Nap.

I'm One Of Those Guys Who Will Drink To, Uh, Kind Of Celebrate. I Don't Drink Too Much When I'm Down Or Anything Like That. But You've Really Got To Be, I Guess The Word That Came To Mind Is "creative," About The Way You're Celebrating. You Want To Keep The Celebration Going. I've Learned That Lesson Over And Over. Here On The Road There's A Lot Of Cause For Celebration, But You Just Gotta Get The Damper Out A Little Bit, And You Want To Keep That Governor On. You Want To Keep Your Give-a-shitter In Kick.

I Just Hope That Theaters Remain. I Think There's Something Very Wonderful About Getting Into A Dark Room With A Bunch Of People. There's Something Cool About That. Brings Us All Together In One Room Where We Can Experience All Those Emotions.

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.

Seeing David Mackenzie's Work In "starred Up," I Thought That Was A Wonderful Film.

I've Done Movies In The Past That Have So Many Characters And I Find It's Very Hard To Follow All These Stories. You End Up Not Caring About Any Of The People And I Thought That Would Be The Case In This Film, And You Had These Big Speeches For Each Character, You Know, It's Like "god That's How You'll Have To Cut That Down In Order To Paste It All", To Edit The Movie And My Representatives Could Say "no, You Really You Ought To Check It Out.

It Gives Me More Breadth As An Actor And As An Artist To Not Be Pigeonholed.

I'm A Big Fan Of Country.

I've Worked With A Lot Of First-time Directors Who Kind Of Look To Me For Ideas And Opinions And Stuff, And I'm A Team Player.

You Just Have To Work With Your Discomfort. ... It’s Challenging, But You Have To Dance The Dance That The Band’s Playing. You Can’t Say: “i Came Here To Cha Cha And They’re Playing A Waltz, Godammit!”

I'm At This Time In Life When I Have To Take The Opportunities I Have Left.

My Website's Kind Of Fun For Me. I Get To Do Drawings On That. It's Kind Of Fun.

I've Got A Closet Full Of Tuxes, And I Appreciate That, Because One Thing I Don't Like To Do Is Shop.

My M.o. As Far As Choosing Projects Is I Really Try Not To Work. I Try To Not Do The Scripts That Are Offered Me. I'm In This Wonderful Position To Be Able To Do That. The Reason I Do That Is Because I Know What It Takes Once I Engage, What That Means For Me Personally And For My Wife.

One Of The Tough Things About Being An Actor, Probably The Hardest Thing, Is Getting Your Foot In The Door, And My Father Handled That For Me At A Very Early Age. It's Funny, I Get An Image Of The Thing With Eggs And Chickens Where, When The Egg Is Getting Ready To Hatch, The Little Chicken Will Start To Peck At The Shell A Little Bit, And The Mom Will Hear That And Start To Peck At The Shell From The Outside, And They're Both Kind Of Working Together.

Working Together

My Main Teachers Were My Father And My Mother And My Brother.

One Of The Greatest Feelings In The World Is Knowing That We As Individuals Can Make A Difference. Ending Hunger In America Is A Goal That Is Literally Within Our Grasp.

When You Truly Commit In Your Life, You Start Receiving More Than You Could Imagine.

It Used To Kind Of Upset Me When I'd Be Working On A Part In My Hotel Room, And I'd Get An Idea For A Song And Find Myself On The Guitar For An Hour When I Should Be Working On My Lines. But I've Discovered That When I Start To Shake Up My Creativity It Wants To Be Expressed In All Kinds Of Different Ways. They All Kind Of Inform Each Other.

Like Most Of The Movies I Get Involved With, I Resisted As Long As Possible, I Really Try To Figure Out Why I Shouldn't Do It And This One Had Plenty Of Reasons "not To Do It".

I Haven't Been To Comic-con.

I Don't Know How It Is For Women Or For Other Guys, But When I Was Young And In My 20s, I Had A Fear Of Marriage.

There's A Bit Of The Kid In Me.

I Remember In One Of My Early Films I Had A Drunk Scene. It Was Kiss Me Goodbye, With Sally Field, And I Was Playing This Kind Of Nerdy Guy Who Gets Drunk And Dances. And So I Thought, "oh Well, I'll Just Get Drunk And Do The Dance." And It Was Wonderful, But Then I Had The Rest Of The Day, And The Next Day. So I Learned That You Don't Really Have To Do The Things That Your Character Is Doing. But Us Actors, We Use Something Called Sense Memory. I've Certainly Been Drunk Before, And Part Of My Job Is To Recall That Without Getting Drunk.

Working With My Dad Was Such A Gas. We Approached The Work In A Similar Way. We Only Made Two Films Together When I Was An Adult, Tucker, And Blown Away, But It Was So Much Fun To Play With Your Parent Like That.

My Wife, Whenever I'd Go Off To Work And I'd Be Kind Of Anxious, She'll Say, 'remember, Have Fun.' Oh, I Forgot, Thanks For The Reminder. Because Sometimes We Do Forget. We Take It All Too Seriously And There's A Lot Of Joy To Be Had Wherever You Are.

During My Early Years, I Thought I Might Be A Musician. Like Most Kids, I Didn't Do What My Parents Wanted Me To Do. They Were Gung-ho That All Their Kids Become Actors. They Loved Showbiz So Much. I Am A Product Of Nepotism, Basically.

You Know, I Thought We Could Use A Good Myth About Technology To Help Guide Us Through These Particular Modern Waters Right Now.

Live Like You're Already Dead, Man. Have A Good Time. Do Your Best. Let It All Come Ripping Right Through You.

What I Learned Most From My Father Wasn't Anything He Said; It Was Just The Way He Behaved. He Loved His Work So Much That, Whenever He Came On Set, He Brought That With Him, And Other People Rose To It.

A Fool And His Money Are Quickly Parted.

Nowadays, In The Contract That Actors Sign, You Have To Agree That You're Going To Do A Certain Amount Of Publicity-the Hard Part They Don't Pay You For.

Every Time I Walk Down One Of Those Red Carpets, You Think I'd Be Used To It After All These Years, But It's Like It's Happening For The First Time.

Sometimes, You Can Not Click With Somebody, And It Can Feel Awkward.

I'm Drawn To The Path Of Least Resistance.

Path Of Least Resistance

I Don't Really Care About Having More Fame Than I Have.

I'm Always Busy, But I'm Lazy As Well.

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Generally Speaking I Would Say I Enjoy The Smaller Films More Because There's A Less Sense Of Pressure And Often The Material Is More Unusual.

You Kind Of Notice What's Going On In Your Body, And You Can Kind Of Feel A Certain Tightening, Or Fear, Which Is Something That, As An Artist, I've Kind Of Befriended. I Can Pretty Much Count On It For Anything That I Engage In - That Thing Like, "am I Going To Be Able To Pull This Off?" Well, What Am I Gonna Do With This Feeling? The More Nervous You Get, The More Worried You Get About It. So You Pay Attention To What You Might Need.

Pretend Was A Big Part Of My Childhood.

I'd Done About 10 Movies Before I Decided I Wanted To Make Acting The Main Thrust Of My Career.

I Do My Best To Hold The Director's Opinion Above My Own.

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Any Role That Big Is Going To Be A Challenge For Any Actor, But For An Actor Of A Young Age, It's Going To Be Even Tougher.

Work Takes Me Away From My Wife, Sue, And My Life In Santa Barbara.

Like Most Kids, You Don't Want To Do What Your Folks Want You To Do. You've Got Your Own Thing.

Life Is Having Its Way With Me Now. And I'm Really Pleased.

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I Don't Have Too Many Plans Filled Out. I Know I Want To Keep Doing More Music. I've Got A Couple Of Albums Worth Of Songs I'd Like To Put It Out There. As Far As Movies, I Just Want To Continue How I've Been Doing It: Working With Terrific People Is Certainly On My Agenda, And Then Doing Stories That Interest Me.

I'm Kind Of An Idea Guy.

I Consider Myself Pretty Lazy, But I Look Back And Check Out The Stuff I've Done, And I Say, 'god, That's A Lot Of Stuff For A Lazy Guy.' It's A Paradox, I Suppose, Being Both Things.

When You Start To Engage With Your Creative Processes, It Shakes Up All Your Impulses, And They All Kind Of Inform One Another.

My Father Lloyd Bridges Was Very Versatile In His Parts, But He Had A Hit In The '60s 'sea Hunt,' Where He Played A Skin Diver. And He Was So Into That Role That People Actually Thought He Was A Skin-diver.

I Don't Have Too Much Time To Jam With The Rest Of Hollywood.

I've Produced A Couple Of Films And Really Enjoyed Starting It From The Very Beginning And Seeing It All The Way Through To The End; That Was Very Gratifying.

A Large Part Of Acting Is Just Pretending. You Get To Work With These Other Great Make-believers, All Making Believe As Hard As They Can.

Life's Picking Up Speed.

I Can See How A Relationship With A Writer Would Be An Easy Thing.

You Liked The Freshness Of It, C'mon Try It" And I Said "oh God, I Read It Three Of Four Times" And Finally I Said "all Right, I Want You Guys To Organize A Reading And I Want You To Be There To See How Terrible This Is Not Going To Work At All", So We Had A Table Like This, And Read The Script, And It Was Just Great.

Obviously It's Fun To Let Yourself Go And Eat A Pint Of Haagen Dazs, But Being Healthy Feels The Best. Sobriety And Health Is The Greatest Thing.

There's Kind Of A Zen Aspect To Bowling. The Pins Are Either Staying Up Or Down Before You Even Throw Your Arm Back. It's Kind Of A Mind-set. You Want To Be In This Perfect Mind-set Before You Released The Ball.

Yeah, I've Been Interested In Music Since I Was A Teenager, Always Writing Songs.

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.

I Don't Really Think In Career Terms.

My Mom Wasn't A Movie Star.

Sometimes You'll Have A Movie That You're Very Proud Of And You Think It Transcended All Of Your Expectations But It Doesn't Come Out At The Right Time. I Have Done Movies That Have Never Been Released. That Can Be Depressing.

I Used To Read Comics When I Was A Kid.

I Think There's A Real Joy In Going To See Movies When You Discover Them Yourself.

I've Had Really Great Experiences Working With First-time Directors. They Come At Filmmaking With Fresh Ideas. I've Been Very Lucky That Way.

If Some Crazy Idea Stays In My Head For Long Enough, Then There's No Fighting It. I Just Say, Okay, Let's Go.

Do I Have A Long-term Plan? Kind Of. I Have A General Direction, I Think. But It's Funny What Comes Down The Pike.

For Me And My Wife, It Was Love At First Sight.

Sometimes I Think Of Movie Acting As Advanced Pretend.

I'm A Pretty Basic Surfer.

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.

I'm Very Much Into The Costuming Of Any Character That I Portray And It's One Of The Great Things About Making Movies Is It's A Collaborative Art Form So You Get All These Artists Who Are Looking Specifically About For This Instance Your Character's Costume And What That Might Tell About Your Character.

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.

Taylor Sheridan I Think Wrote A Very Good Script. It Reeked Of Authenticity. He Seemed Like A Guy Who Knew What He Was Talking About And It Turned Out That Taylor's Uncle Is A Marshal, So He Knew Things From That Side.

35 Million People In The U.s. Are Hungry Or Don't Know Where Their Next Meal Is Coming From, And 13 Million Of Them Are Children. If Another Country Were Doing This To Our Children, We'd Be At War.

All Of This High-tech Stuff Is Supposed To Set Us Free And Make Life Easier. To Me, It Makes It More Difficult And Demanding.

Well, Thanksgiving We'll All Gather At My House For Dinner And We Usually Do Christmas At Beau's House. My Mom Is Still Feisty And Kicking. She's 92. I Saw Her Last Night And She Published A Book At 90. It's A Wonderful Book Called "you Caught Me Kissing" And It's Basically Love-poems That She Wrote For My Dad. It's More Than That, It's A Wonderful Book.

Execution Is Everything.

Play Doesn't Have To Be A Frivolous Thing. You May Think Of A Beethoven Symphony As Something Serious, But It's Still Being Played. I Think Oscar Wilde Said That Life Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.

Tightness Gets In The Way Of Everything, Except Tightness.

You Have To Find Your Tone And Work Within That To Make It As Real So The Audience Can Really Engage In The Story You're Telling.

Normally, I Love To Go To The Movies And When I See A Character Portrayed By Different Actors At Different Ages, It Kind Of Pops A Little Bit For Me. It Brings Me Out Of The Movie Experience. Now We Have The Technology To Cure That.

You Can Change Things, You Can Make Things Better.

I Have A Cycle That Is Not Particularly Cool, But It's A Cycle: Trash Myself To Reward Myself.

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

Myths Are Wonderful - They Really Tell The Stories That Connect All Of Us And Teach Us So Much.

Normally, We Push Away The Things We're Scared Of.

Directing Takes A Lot Of Time.

I Went Through A Very Hairy Period. I Had A Movie Where I Was Going To Play Walt Whitman That Fell Through. At The Time, I Had Grown This Huge Beard And Very Long Hair. But Then, The Movie Got Canceled, I Had Some Other Parts, And I Currently Have Very Short Hair. So, When I Look In The Mirror, I Don't Know Who I Am Exactly. It's Interesting.

I Hate It When There's A Good Movie, Someone Overhypes It And I'm Disappointed That I Don't Like It More.

It's A Wonderful Metaphor, Catching A Wave, For How You Can Look At Other Challenges In Your Life.

My Mother And My Father Were Very Nurturing And Wonderful Examples Of How To Live Your Life.

I'm Not Locked Into Playing One Guy.

I Kept Dreaming Of A World I Thought I'd Never See, And Then....one Day....i Got In!

I Hadn't Talked To Him In Many, Many Years. He Got A Bad Rap On "heaven's Gate." I Actually Live In The Hog Ranch From "heaven's Gate" In Montana. Mike Cimino Gave Me That Set, The Whorehouse, That's My House.

I Don't Think I Ever Went Down That Movie Star Path. I Always Enjoy Taking A 90-degree Turn From The Last Thing I Did.

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.

Movies Are Very Subjective.

One Of The Things That I Find So Exciting About Life Is That You're Constantly Surprised. You Never Know What's Going To Happen, And It's Certainly Like That Making Movies; Every Once In A While, One Will Come Along That Transcends All Of Your Expectations.

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.

You Have That Frank Capra Kind Of Side To It And The Characters Are Really Well Drawn, So I Think Everybody Tried Their Best To Stay Faithful To The Script.

That's One Of The Cool Things About Fame. You Have An Affect On Society And Where It Goes.

As Far As Beau Is Concerned, We're On The Same Team, We Root For Each Other. If My Parts Are Slightly More Attractive, Or Are Perceived That Way By Others, He's Very Content.

We're Here For Such A Short Period Of Time.

You Prep, You Prep, You Prep. And On The Day That You Film, You Let All Of That Go. I Try To Achieve Emptiness As Much As Possible - The Zen Thing - To Let The Deal Come Out Of That Nothing.

Hope's Interesting, Isn't It? I Can't Turn Hope Off, It's Hopeless.

I Kind Of Quit Surfing When I Got Out Of High School, But Then A Few Years Ago I Started To Take It Up Again. I'm Not An Expert By Any Means, But It's So Wonderful To Get Out In The Ocean And Get A Different Perspective On Things.

I'm Also Working Closely With A Group Called The Amazon Conservation Team, Helping With The Rainforest In South America.

I'm In New Mexico Making A Movie Called "granite Mountain." I'm Playing The Head Of The Organization Called Statesman, Which Is The United States Version Of Kingsman. I'm Like How Michael Caine Was In The Original.

I've Gone Out Of My Way To Not Take Baggage With Me From Film To Film.

I Like To Think Of Myself As A Character Actor, Though There's Some Redundancy In That...

I Was Loving Music, And Loving Art, Painting, So I Was Considering Those Things, But I Must Say I Dug Acting As Well.

The Problem With The Designated Driver Programme, It's Not A Desirable Job. But If You Ever Get Sucked Into Doing It, Have Fun With It. At Then End Of The Night Drop Them Off At The Wrong House.

Everyone I Meet Is In My Sangha. I Don't Know If That's The Proper Definition, But That's The Way I'm Going To Hold It In My Mind.

You Know, Ballet Might Be Too Formal Of A Title For The Type Of Dance I Do, But I Love To Dance.

What Are The Aspects Of Yourself That Line Up With The Character? You Magnify Those, And The Ones That Don't Match Up You Kind Of Kick To The Curb.

You Always Hear People Say That Having Kids Changes Everything, But You Can't Fully Realize It Until You Have Children Yourself.

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.

If You Open Your Heart, Then The Object Of Your Love Becomes So Precious Because You Are So Open. And That Philosophy, That Caring, Spreads.

Generally Speaking I Would Say I Enjoy The Smaller Films More Because There's A Less Sense Of Pressure And Often The Material Is More Unusual. But In "iron Man" It Was Kind Of Like Both Worlds Colliding Because There Was A Lot Of Improvisation, Not That We Improv-ed In The Scenes But To Discover The Actual Scenes Themselves.

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.

It Was Fortunate For All Of Us To Have Joaquin Jackson, Who Is A Very Renowned Texas Ranger, On Board. He Spent Quite A Few Days With Us On Set And He Added A Lot To It For Me On What It's Like To Be A Texas Ranger.

One Of My Favorite Artists Is Tom Waits, Whom Most People Think Of As A Wonderful Singer-songwriter And A Great Poet. I Certainly Think Of Him That Way, But I Also Know Him As A Terrific Actor. You Know, That Persona That He Puts On When He's Doing His Music Comes From Being An Actor, Figuring Out A Persona.

Poverty Is A Very Complicated Issue, But Feeding A Child Isn't.

The Oscar Nomination Is Great. It's A Great Pat On The Back. And I Like That.

I'm Very Manipulative Towards Directors. My Theory Is That Everyone On The Set Is Directing The Film, We're All Receiving Art Messages From The Universe On How We Should Do The Film.

In Life And In Movies, It's A Similar Challenge, Where You Have Expectations, And You End Up In Situations That Are Not Meeting Your Expectations.

I Had A Great '70s. I Survived It, And That's Always Good News.

You've Got To Take Care Of Yourself On The Path, Not Just When You Cross The Goal Line, Because Don't Forget, Wherever You Are, That's The Goal Line.

I Thought Bringing Those Two [taylor Sheridan And David Mackenzie] Together, Odds Are You're Going To Come Up With Something Pretty Good.

It's Like That Perfection Thing, Trying To Be That Thing You're Not. You Have To Feel That Discomfort And Not Try To Get Rid Of It. Accept That Aspect And Get Into It. Acknowledge Those Feelings And Let Them Be. You Are Who You Are.

One Thing I Want To Do Is Create Something Called Ring Around Congress. It Would Be A State Deal And Also A National Thing, Where The Kids, As A Field Trip, Will Go And Join Hands Around Congress And Give The Politicians Report Cards On How They're Voting On Hunger Issues.

I've Got To Watch My Back, So I Can't Put On Too Much Weight.

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.

I Remember Being On A Black-and-white Set All Day And Then Going Out Into Daylight And Being Amazed By The Colour.

Black And White

I First Got Involved With Ending World Hunger, And I Got Hip To The Facts About It - What A Huge Problem It Was And How It Wasn't A Matter Of Not Having Food Or Not Knowing How To End It, But It Was A Matter Of Creating The Political Will.

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.

Remembers Everything

My Wife Holds The Kite Strings That Let Me Go 'weeeeeee', Then She Reels Me Back In.

Sticking With A Marriage. That's True Grit, Man.

I've Worked With A Lot Of Kids, And When You're Working With Kids They Have Certain Hours That They Have To Work.

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.

When I'm Working, I'm Very Purposeful And Everything Else Gets Out Of Focus. Something I've Had To Work On Together With My Wife Is How To Acknowledge Each Other In The Midst Of This And Keep The Relationship Going.

My Brother's My Teacher, My Mentor, And We Both Learnt All The Acting Basics From Our Father.

Eating Ice Cream And Not Exercising Is Great. The Downside Is Your Health Isn't So Good.

I Think We're All Hooked, I Feel My Own Hook-ness On Immediate Gratification You Know. I Want What I Want.

I've Never Been Motivated By The Award Thing. There's A Certain Thing That This Fame Thing Does That Makes My Job Harder, In A Way. I'm Still Working With That. I Don't Think About It Too Much Until Somebody Asks Me A Question, And Then I Think About It.

Once, During An Interview In Front Of My Wife, I Was Asked, "are You One Of Those Actors Who Brings Your Character Home? Do You Stay In Character?" I Said, "no, Not Really. I Don't Do That," And She Started Laughing. I Asked Her Why. She Said, "well, You Might Think You Don't Bring Characters Home, But You Do." So, While I Don't Feel Like A Character Is Lingering, It Probably Is.

Your Part Can Be The King, But Unless People Are Treating You Like Royalty, You Ain't No King, Man.

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.

I Wish I Were More Disciplined.

A Lot Of People Don't Really Understand What Rehearsal's About. People Are Afraid They're Gonna Leave It In The Dressing Room, Or You're Gonna Shoot Your Wad In Rehearsal.

I Did [michael Cimino] First Movie, "thunderbolt And Lightfoot," And I Remember I Was Still In My Twenties And Very Nervous, We're Shooting Up In Montana, And I'm Thinking, "what The Hell Am I Doing Here? I Don't Feel Anything Like This Part.

Well, When We Made 'tron' There Was No Internet, No Cellphones.

I Love John Irving's Stuff. It's That Marriage Of Comedy And Tragedy. It's Really Terrific.

Yeah I Loved, As A Kid Growing Up, I Loved Science-fiction.

I Think It Would Really Be More Like 10 Films Before I Locked In And Said, "yeah, I'm Really Gonna Do This Thing."

I Just Find My Creativity Manifesting A Bunch Of Different Ways.

Sometimes You Feel You're Making Something Really Special And When It Comes Out You Might Still Feel That Way But For Some Reason It Doesn't Get The Audience. So Many Things Have To Come Together To Get A Creatively Successful And Financially Successful Film.

When You're A Professional You Gotta Do It [your Job] When You Don't Feel Like Doing It.

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.

When I Was Really Young, My Mom Enrolled Me In Dance Classes.

Well, There Are All Kinds Of Gutters. Life Will Supply You With Gutters.

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 Isn't Right.

Whenever You're The Child Of A Famous Person, You Get Judged In Odd Ways Because Of That.

This Is Many, Many Years Ago. It Was Shortly After "starman" I Think. I Don't Know How Close I Was To Getting The Part. I Met With [director] Penny Marshall And That's One That I Knew Would Be A Hit. It Just Felt Hit-ish. But It's Like You Go To A Store And You See A Jacket And You Go "i Love That Jacket" And You Try It On And It's Too Big Or Too Small For You And It's The Only One They Have. For Some Reason That Part Just Didn't Fit Me.

I Want To Have All Of My Faculties.

I Like To Know Where The Camera Is.

Basically, One Of The Hardest Things About Being An Actor Is Getting Your First Break. I'm A Product Of Nepotism. The Doors Were Open To Me. I'd Done Several Movies Before I Decided What I Wanted To Do.

As A Kid, You Want To Be Liked For Who You Are. You Don't Want To Be Liked For Who Your Parents Are. You Don't Want To Get A Job Because Of Who Your Parents Are. You Want To Do It On Your Own, With Your Own Gifts And Your Own Value. So, I Decided To Spare My Kids That And Not Be As Pro-active As My Dad Was.

We Would Do Improvisation Together. And That In A Way, Had Almost A "student-film Side" Where We'd Be Sitting There With Robert Downey And Jon Favreau And We're Playing Around, We're Jamming Around And We Read Those Pages And In Next Couple Of Days That's What We Do, So It Was A Good Experience. Kind Of Frightening At First Because You Didn't Quite Know How It Was Going To Work Out, But They Had Some Very Talented People There So It Worked Out Well.

Words Fall Short Sometimes.

I Don't Really Consider Myself One Of Those Actors Who Takes His Work Home With Him.

I Really Try Hard Not To Work, Not To Engage, Because I Know What That Means. What Hard Work It Is; It Takes Me Away From My Family.

I Think My Love Of Journalizing My Life Comes From My Mom.

I Love Seeing Somebody Act Real Earnest And Serious, Like Jackie Gleason. He Makes Me Laugh Because He Reflects Back To Me My Own Serious-mindedness And How Ridiculous It All Is. It's Always Easier To See Somebody Else In That Position Than Yourself, And You Laugh. It's Like The Classic Slipping On The Banana Peel, Or Someone Getting Hit By A Pie In The Face. Why Do Those Things Make Us Laugh? Is It From Relief, Like: Thank God It Wasn't Me? Or Is It Something Else: I'm Being Very Serious Now. I'm Pontificating Earnestly And Solemnly About-pow! Pie In The Face! The Bust-up Of Certainty.

I Confessed To Mike [cimino] A Couple Of Days Before We Shot. I Was Like, "what Am I Doing Here, Mike?" And Mike Just Looked At Me, In That Very Directorial Manor, Took A Long Pause, And He Said, "you Know The Game Tag?" And I Said, "yeah." And He Said, "well, You're It." That Was Some Of The Best Direction I Think I've Ever Received.

My M.o. As Far As Choosing Projects Is I Really Try Not To Work. I Try To Not Do The Scripts That Are Offered Me.

Well, I'm Not A Big Sports Fan.

Yeah, I Loved Ray Bradbury.

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