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I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.
When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.
You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.
I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.
When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.
I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.
That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.
There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?
I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.
When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.
Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.
I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.