- "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?" [adultery]
- I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
- Ever since "Slapshot" I`ve been swearing more. I knew I had a problem one day when I turned to my daughter and said: `Would you please pass the f*cking salt?`.
- Acting is a question of absorbing other people`s personalities and adding some of your own experiences.
- [When asked why he thinks he became so successful as an actor] I have a face that does not belong to a thief.
- I don`t think there`s anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It`s the other attitude that confuses me.
- Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
- I really just can`t watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
- I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
- I can remember in my high-school days and I kept thinking to myself: "Now, why did those actors go out in public after a certain age?" I mean, why would they wanna blow this image they`d worked so hard and allow themselves to be photographed? They should have just stayed at home and stayed young and youthful. And now it`s there for everybody to look at - all our words, stuttering, and bad posture. All those things that should never happen, really. Well, times change. Yeah, it ain`t so bad!
- If you`re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can`t tell who the sucker is, it`s you.
- The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
- The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud (1963) in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it`s flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they`re mixing me up with the roles I play characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.
- To be an actor, you have to be a child.
- In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They`ve been demoted since then but they`re still treated as beings larger than life.
- In response to radio interviewer who asked if he would co-star with Robert Redford in sequel to Indecent Proposal (1993) "Like a rocket!...I`d shack up with anyone for a million dollars. I`d shack up with a gorilla for a million, plus 10 percent."
- [Talking about Alfred Hitchcock]: "I think Hitch and I could have really hit it off, but the script kept getting in the way".
- I`m always puzzled by this talk about star image. I think there`s people who are writers or barbers or mechanics or race car drivers that have certain recognizable personalities, and I don`t think just because they happen to be on the screen that it makes them any more exceptional.
- "Acting is like letting your pants down, you`re exposed."
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