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The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
I told my wife, when I go up to the garage and I wash my Cobra, I feel like I'm cheating on her.
At the end of the day, at 49 years old, it's realistic to believe that a Terminator has a heart.
Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.
The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.
Someone like Van Johnson can spend 52 weeks a year on the road because he doesn't have a family.
Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.
I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.
Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.
The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.
I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.
I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.
The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.
I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.
I created great long-term friendships with Jerry Padalecki and Milo Ventimiglia back in the day.
I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.
I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."
If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator
To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.
I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.
I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.
Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.
What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?
The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.
There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.