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They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.
I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me
If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.
I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.
Who cares about people's personal lives? I mean, honestly. How are you then able to disappear into a role?
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.
I always thought I'd be good at musicals, and it turns out I make up for my lack of skill with enthusiasm.
I love watching my brothers raise their kids and not have to do it for myself and have the responsibility.
It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!
It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.
The physical stuff of a movie is difficult. It's one of those things where it's just harder than it looks.
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore.
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.
I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.
f you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.
Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
Why does 'I Love Lucy' still make people laugh? Because she's a specific character who has real reactions.
I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.
I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.
Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.
[Kyle Chandler]definitely helped me out a lot, stepped up my game. Just like the volleying back and forth.
I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.
I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.
My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.