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I can't even pretend to play golf.
A director without a vision is a catastrophe.
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.
If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.
I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
I'm as old as I am, and I don't try to hide it. It's not a big deal.
I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.
I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.
No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.
For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.
I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.
I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.
All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.
There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.
You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.
I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
I get a little upset, yeah, if a year goes by and I don't get a script. Thank God I have other interests that keep me from becoming a nervous wreck.
It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.
It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.
I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.
Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.
Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'
Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.
I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.