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If you can sustain a career over 40 years in this business, you've gotta consider yourself lucky.
I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
One of the amazing things about acting now is that you can try different things and have choices.
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
Putting a needle on a record is almost like you're making a commitment to listening to something.
I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.
My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.
America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.
I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.
In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.
I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.
You don't want to jump in on your first day on a show and start improv-ing and changing the show.
Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.
My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.
I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.
I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.
President Clinton celebrates the first casual Friday at the white house by wearing leather chaps.
As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
I like to do an interview when the other person isn't expecting it. I find it's more spontaneous.
I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
'Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.
I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.
Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.
My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.
The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.
When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.
I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.