I like my computer. But I don’t know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you’re wonderful every time you do something; I think that’s human nature.
You can’t control your mind. Why would you want to?
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I’m not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don’t have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It’s an unrequited love with nature – a one-way love affair.
‘Alien’ is a great movie. So is ‘Close Encounters.’ But I’m not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. ‘2001’s good.
I’m very proud of my Scottish blood.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it’s hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
I don’t mind close-ups, I like them, but they’re kind of forceful – you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There’s less mystery.
I’m always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
I don’t believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
I’m always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
I had a fear that I’d be typecast, but I don’t really have that fear anymore.
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We’d like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
One of the scary things is that, when you’re a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you’re an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
I don’t like watching people work if they’re making art.
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it’s like catching lightning in a bottle. It’s the best part of what we do.
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.
It’s always a mystery when you’re going into a role – ‘Here’s your wife of 40 years and… action!’ How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It’s hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You’ve got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.
People think celebrities don’t have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It’s like you’ve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
I don’t like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by ‘Jaws.’
I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that I make a living right away, and it’s hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It’s unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.
I don’t mind close-ups, I like them, but they’re kind of forceful – you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There’s less mystery.
I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.
If you’re smart, you’ll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there’ll always be somebody who’s never read a book who’ll know twice what you know.
You’re raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it’s special. I think people react to celebrities like that – I mean, they treat celebrities like children.
I may be learning guitar, but I’ll never be able to sing.
I love animals and I love working with them because they don’t lie.
Fame does lead to money, which I don’t have a close relationship with. I’m the kind of guy who never sees the money – it all goes somewhere else. I don’t understand it, I don’t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
I like my computer. But I don’t know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
I don’t think I’d ever be cruel to an animal.
I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.
Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.
I’ve turned down jobs because I’ve said, ‘Honestly, I can’t find my way in. I can’t do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.’
I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
Women’s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It’s men’s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they’re actually tied up.
I’ll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
Women’s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It’s men’s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they’re actually tied up.
You can’t control your mind. Why would you want to?
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