My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn’t live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.
I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
I wouldn’t be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.
One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it’s all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal – all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal – like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.
It’s funny what actors take issue with. Some won’t do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won’t ever play anyone remotely unlikable – ‘Heroes only, please.’ Some won’t do violence. I have no such qualms.
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It’s all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who’s more interested in being married than in getting married.
I’m not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.
I’m a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that’s a part of my culture.
If you’re telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.
Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.
In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I’m a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.
I was a child of the ’80s.
I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it’s a really big swing that I don’t know if I’m going to connect on.
The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you’re on the road to becoming a bad one.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
I’ve been on TV a long time, and I’ve never had a catch phrase.
I’ve gotten to believe it’s more fun to play politicians than actually be them.
I loved fun. I spent my whole life in search of fun. I have not given up that part of myself.
Every relationship has its complications.
I would’ve loved Jack Kennedy. I would’ve loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.
My roles in comedies from ‘Austin Powers’ to ‘Tommy Boy’ to ‘Wayne’s World,’ were sort of comedic ‘straight man’ parts. My character on ‘Parks & Recreation’ is the comic relief in a comedy. To play a character that appears strictly for laughs is sort of new for me and really fun.
Feng shui isn’t open to interpretation.
I didn’t go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.
If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.
The president of the United States can’t even fire his chef. I’m not kidding.
I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
I’m no genius, but I’m real smart in one area – I picked the right mate.
We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we’re still talking about 25 years later.
I’ve never met a funny person who wasn’t smart. I’ve met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I’ve never met a funny person who wasn’t smart.
My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I – they are what I build my world around.
I don’t know what drives me.
I am still in love with my wife.
Show me someone who doesn’t have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I’ll show you a dullard.
I don’t like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don’t want my vote taken for granted.
When I got sober, that was 1990.
I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat.
When you’re writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising – to the extent that you can be – about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.
I – you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.
The Kennedys are our royals.
I don’t flip. I don’t even dive into a pool – straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.
The ’80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.
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