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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

Directing Takes A Lot Of Time.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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Often When I Finish A Film I'll Have That Feeling Inside Me: 'i Never Want To Do This Ever Again. I Don't Want To Pretend Anymore. I Want To Be Myself And Do That.' And Then, Thank God, That Feeling Goes Away After A Month Or So And I'm Raring To Go Again.

To Go Into Therapy Is An Adventure, Not Really To Iron Anything Out.

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Everybody Loses A Couple, And You Either Pack It Up And Go Home Or You Keep On Fighting.

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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.

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I Look Back At My Filmography, And I'm Pretty Jazzed With The Stuff I've Been Part Of. They're All Movies I'd Like To See.

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.

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

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Well, I'm Not A Big Sports Fan.

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You Can Relate To Somebody's Pain And You Have Compassion, Which Can Lead To Intimacy.

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

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

The Wonderful Thing About Acting Is That You Can Use All Of Your Talents And Interests In Your Work.

I'm Kind Of An Idea Guy.

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

With A Labyrinth, You Make A Choice To Go In - And Once You've Chosen, Around And Around You Go. But You Always Find Your Way To The Center.

Movies Are Like Magic Tricks.

I Want To Have All Of My Faculties.

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

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.

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.

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

Yeah, I'd Been Around Horses Most Of My Life.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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There's Lots Of Good Movies Where You Feel That The Dialogue Could Be Improvised, But Very Little Was. The "big Lebowski" Was Like That Where People Say "oh, You Know, That Sounds So..." And We'd Always Go Back And Get Every Man, Every Ellipses In There The Way These Guys Write It. Because Not Only Is It Saying What Michael Wants The Character To Say But The Way They All Speak Kind Of Creates This Tone Because It's Not Exactly Real.

Tightness Gets In The Way Of Everything, Except Tightness.

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.

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

Words Fall Short Sometimes.

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.

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.

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I Haven't Been To Comic-con.

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Yeah, I Loved Ray Bradbury.

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

I Gotta Take Notes When Things Occur To Me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pretend Was A Big Part Of My Childhood.

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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.

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.

I Find I'm Most Challenged By Things I Really Care About, Because I Really Want To Do Them Well. It Causes Quite A Bit Of Anxiety. But That Very Thing You're Afraid Of Is Kind Of Like A Blessing In Disguise. If You Didn't Have That Fear, You Wouldn't Have The Other Side - Courage And Bravery, Positive Emotions.as An Actor, You Get Used To Those Fears, And You're Almost Happy When They Show Up. It Makes You Learn Your Lines And Prepare.

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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.

I Wish I Were More Disciplined.

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

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

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

I Had Years Of Partying, And I Was Kind Of Surprised And Happy I Survived It All. Now, Being A Parent, I Look Back On It Thinking, Oh God, The Things You Did!

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

A Fool And His Money Are Quickly Parted.

I'm Not Real Good At Romance.

Unlike A Lot Of Actors, My Father Encouraged All His Kids To Go Into Show Business.

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!”

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 Loved Working With My Brother [beau] And My Father [lloyd] Whenever That Happened. I Had A Wonderful Experience Making "the Fabulous Baker Boys," Which I Felt Was A Great Movie, Too.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I Have No Lucky Charm. I Am 100 Percent Superstition-free, And I Take Nothing For Granted.

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.

That Movie, 'airplane!,' What A Landmark Film It Was. It's A Great, Great Movie.

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.

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.

I'd Maybe Done About 12 Movies When I Decided That This Was What I Was Going To Do.

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

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.

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

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You Don't Want To Vilify Your Ego.

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.

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

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

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

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

People Fall In Love For Mysterious Reasons.

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