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Life's Picking Up Speed.

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'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.

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

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.

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

I Don't Really Think In Career Terms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Pretend Was A Big Part Of My Childhood.

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.

For Me, Growing Up, The Downside Of It Was That As A Kid You Don't Want To Stand Out. You Don't Want To Have A Famous Father Let Alone Get A Job Because Of Your Famous Father, You Know? But I'm A Product Of Nepotism. That's How I Got My Foot In The Door, Through My Dad.

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.

People Fall In Love For Mysterious Reasons.

Falling In Love

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

A Fool And His Money Are Quickly Parted.

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.

I'm A Big Fan Of Country.

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.

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.

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

We Love Things That Are Convenient.

Mania Is A Wonderful Feeling.

I'm Kind Of An Idea Guy.

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.

Tightness Gets In The Way Of Everything, Except Tightness.

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

My Mom Wasn't A Movie Star.

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

I Never Read Reviews Of Something I Want To See.

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

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.

There's A Bit Of The Kid In Me.

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.

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 Haven't Been To Comic-con.

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

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

Yeah, I Loved Ray Bradbury.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Movies Are Like Magic Tricks.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm A Pretty Basic Surfer.

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.

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.

Words Fall Short Sometimes.

I Like To Know Where The Camera Is.

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

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.

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

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

I'm Drawn To The Path Of Least Resistance.

Path Of Least Resistance

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.

Sobriety And Health Is The Greatest Thing.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 Do A Lot Of Ceramics.

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

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

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

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.

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

I Want To Have All Of My Faculties.

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

Well, I'm Not A Big Sports Fan.

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

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

"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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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!

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.

I'm Used To Watching Old Movies Of Myself.

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

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.

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?"

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.

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".

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

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

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

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'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.

I Wish I Were More Disciplined.

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

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.

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

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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

You Don't Want To Vilify Your Ego.

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

I'm Not Locked Into Playing One Guy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You Can Change Things, You Can Make Things Better.

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

Sometimes I Think Of Movie Acting As Advanced Pretend.

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.

Directing Takes A Lot Of Time.

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