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I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.
With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.
My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.
I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.
I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.
Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.
Tom Cruise has-we all have-the right to practice how we feel...don't judge someone until they have tossed your salad.
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.
I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.
It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.
You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.
A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.
Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.
I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.
I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.
I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.
Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.
I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'
I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.
I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.
My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.
I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.
When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.
You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.
I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.