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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.

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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.

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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.

Words Fall Short Sometimes.

I Want To Have All Of My Faculties.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You Don't Want To Vilify Your Ego.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Always Maintain A Joyful Mind. Appreciate The Struggles As Opportunities To Wake Up.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

Making Films Is Sort Of Like You're Pulling Off A Magic Trick. It's Sort Of Like An Illusion. It's Not Real But You Want It To Appear Real, And All Kinds Of Things Go Into That, From The Clothes You're Wearing To The Make-up, To The Light.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Not Counting Any Chickens.

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.

I Don't Really Think In Career Terms.

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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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".

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

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

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I'm Used To Watching Old Movies Of Myself.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sobriety And Health Is The Greatest Thing.

I'm Drawn To The Path Of Least Resistance.

Path Of Least Resistance

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.

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

My Mom Wasn't A Movie Star.

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

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.

I'm Not Real Good At Romance.

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

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

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

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

We Love Things That Are Convenient.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

Directing Takes A Lot Of Time.

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'm A Pretty Basic Surfer.

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.

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.

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 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.

People Fall In Love For Mysterious Reasons.

Falling In Love

A Fool And His Money Are Quickly Parted.

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.

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

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

I Haven't Been To Comic-con.

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.

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.

Execution Is Everything.

I Used To Read Comics When I Was A Kid.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm A Big Fan Of Country.

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

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

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.

It Can Kind Of Screw Up Things If You're Trying To Overwork Something.

Pretend Was A Big Part Of My Childhood.

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

Life's Picking Up Speed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Yeah, I Loved Ray Bradbury.

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

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

Well, I'm Not A Big Sports Fan.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Movies Are Like Magic Tricks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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

You Can Change Things, You Can Make Things Better.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Tightness Gets In The Way Of Everything, Except Tightness.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Wish I Were More Disciplined.

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.

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.

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 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

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