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I am a competitor and always have that itch until the day I die, but I won't let the itch supersede being a businessman.
As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.
I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.
I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.
People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.
When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.
I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.
Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.
A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.
I've never been sent a lock of hair or anything like that, but I've gotten underwear with my face on it. That was weird.
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.
Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.
In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.
I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.
Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.
My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.
Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.
I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.
I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.
'The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless.
You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.
My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.
Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.
Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.
Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.