- "A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."
- "God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers."
- "I grew up thinking a movie star had to be like Rock Hudson or Tab Hunter, certainly nobody in any way like me."
- "The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk."
- "I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly."
- "If a lot of dogs are on the beach, the first thing they do is smell each other's ass. The information that's gotten somehow makes pacifists out of all of them. I've thought, 'If only we smelled each other's asses, there wouldn't be any war.'"
- "I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31."
- "Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student."
- "In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win."
- "I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft."
- "So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."
- "I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
- "I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation."
- "Blame is for God and small children."
- "If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy."
- "There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
- "Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."
- "I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed."
- "Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes."
- "Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us."
- "I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"
- "I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation."
- "One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed."
- "I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."
- "For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."
- "I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories."
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