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I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from ‘Dumb and Dumber’ or whatever movie they liked. And that’s fine, it gets them in the door, but then it’s my job to give them something different.
I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family.
You know, it’s really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
And that’s one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don’t try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can – it’s in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.
Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don’t need much help.
I never said, ‘I’m going to be a big star.’ I said, ‘I’m going to be a good actor.’ And that took the pressure off.
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I’ve relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, ‘Hire me if you want somebody good.’ I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that’s kind of bridged the decades.
I think it’s a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.
We’re all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.
And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I’m one of those guys.
I’m the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That’s not how I was brought up. I don’t recognize the country I live in anymore.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn’t see that as a requirement in my job description.
I always wanted to do films. I’d gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.
The older you get, and the more you’re in this business, the more you kind of feel like, ‘Why don’t we just do it my way?’
There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.
Give me good writing, and I’ll play it all day.
You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There’s an art to that, terrific. I’m not interested in it, but there’s an art to that I suppose.
