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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.

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I Understand Professionals Have

Jeff Bridges

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'm Pretty Critical Of Myself As Far As Reaching Some Sort Of Perfect Bull's-eye Or Target That I'm Aiming For.

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

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.

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.

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 Used To Read Comics When I Was A Kid.

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

One In Four Kids In The U.s. Faces Hunger.

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

I'm Not Counting Any Chickens.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Life's Picking Up Speed.

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.

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

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

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.

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've Done Several Commercials And I've Done Voiceovers For Documentaries.

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

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

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

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.

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

As You Become Famous You Lose Some Of Your Anonymity, Which Is Wonderful For An Actor To Have Because You Can Observe People And Also People Don't Have Such A Strong Sense Of Who You Are And That Sort Of Thing.

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.

Myths Are Wonderful Tools That We've Had, Oh, For Eons Now That Help Us Navigate The Situations We Find Ourselves In.

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.

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

I Have Hesitation Making Any Kind Of Decision, Really In My Life. I'm Really Slow At It.

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.

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

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 Found That Photography Was A Great Way Of Relaxing On The Set.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm Not Real Good At Romance.

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.

Yeah, I Loved Ray Bradbury.

I Have My Prized Possession In My Wallet. That's A Photograph Of The First Words I Ever Uttered To My Wife, And Her Answer To My Question When I Asked Her, "will You Go Out With Me?"

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

He [michael Cimino] Wasn't The Typical Filmmaker. I Don't Know If He Had More In Him, He Certainly Had A Lot Of Scripts. I Know He Wrote A Hell Of A Lot.

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.

Movies Are Very Subjective.

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.

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

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If You're Married You'll Have Tough Times.

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

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.

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

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.

"the Big Lebowski" Is A Real Masterpiece, As Far As I'm Concerned. I Suppose I'm A Bit Biased Because I'm In It.

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

You Don't Want To Vilify Your Ego.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There's A Bit Of The Kid In Me.

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

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

I'm Kind Of An Idea Guy.

I Know How To Dance With The Wind, I Can Use Its Power By Sailing This Way, Then That Way, And Again This Way, Till Finally I Get To You. With Rowing, You're Working Primarily With Your Arms And Shoulders. But With Sailing, You're Making Bigger Use Of The Wind And The Waves.

I Wish I Were More Disciplined.

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

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.

Movies Are Like Magic Tricks.

I'm Used To Watching Old Movies Of Myself.

I'm A Chairperson For 'no Kid Hungry', A Campaign For Poor American Children.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I Like To Know Where The Camera Is.

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.

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.

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

I'm Drawn To The Path Of Least Resistance.

Path Of Least Resistance

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 Haven't Been To Comic-con.

Mania Is A Wonderful Feeling.

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

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

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.

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

You Can Change Things, You Can Make Things Better.

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.

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

Words Fall Short Sometimes.

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

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

Most Cynics Are Really Crushed Romantics: They've Been Hurt, They're Sensitive, And Their Cynicism Is A Shell That's Protecting This Tiny, Dear Part In Them That's Still Alive.

Sobriety And Health Is The Greatest Thing.

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.

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.

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

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 Gotta Take Notes When Things Occur To Me.

I Never Read Reviews Of Something I Want To See.

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

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

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.

Execution Is Everything.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I Don't Really Think In Career Terms.

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.

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 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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I Love Westerns, I'd Love To Make More Of Them.

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

So I Have This Word For Much Of What I Do In Life: 'plorking.' I'm Not Playing And I'm Not Working, I'm Plorking.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm A Big Fan Of Country.

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.

I'm Not Locked Into Playing One Guy.

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

I Play Music As Much As I Can. I Have A Band Called The Abiders. We've Put Out A Couple Of Albums You Can Find On Itunes. We Tour And All That Stuff, So Music Is Very Much A Part Of My Life.

We Love Things That Are Convenient.

People Fall In Love For Mysterious Reasons.

Falling In Love

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Well, I'm Not A Big Sports Fan.

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.

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

Sometimes I Think Of Movie Acting As Advanced Pretend.

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

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.

Pretend Was A Big Part Of My Childhood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm A Pretty Basic Surfer.

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.

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.

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.

My Mom Wasn't A Movie Star.

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.

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.

It's Not Enough Just To Treat Women Well. We Have To Work To Make Sure All Men Treat Women Well.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

There Are Some Actors That Want You To Call Them By Their Character's Name And They Have No Relationship With You Outside Of The Character. But I Like To Get To Know Who I'm Working With So That We Can Relax Together, And It's More Fun.

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.

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

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