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You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!
We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.
My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.
I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.
As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.
I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.
The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.
You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.
There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.
I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.
It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore.
I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.
I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.
With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.
One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.
Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films.
One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.
But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'
Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.
There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.
When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.
You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.
I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.
I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.
There'll never be another 'MASH.' There's nothing in the way of doing your best work on this set - absolutely nothing.
You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.
It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.
I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.
I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.
It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.
If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'