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When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.
I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
I love TV and film and will happily work there if it's good. But I want the ability to choose between things, to have options.
How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure.
Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
I knew Id have to go to Paris eventually, and I didnt want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, I want to act.
California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
When I was a kid, I didn't have any girlfriends. I was a very nerdy-type dude. Believe me, being a ham does not turn girls on.
You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.
I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.
Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.
You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
Carol Kane is just as warm as you would think she is, and she is so smart and really a living legend and has so much to offer.
This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing.
If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.
I first met the 'Trailer Park Boys' when they did my web television show, and since then, I've hung out with them a few times.
The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.
Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
I'll have you know that as a young man, I spent an entire year as a woman in a world tour of 'As You Like It.' I played Celia.
#GivingTuesday is the perfect cyber-counterbalance to Black Friday and emphasizes giving back in this era of mass consumption.
Personally, I have struggled with anxiety in my history, so I think maybe anxiety or worrying about the future came naturally.
The black community has always been a fan of horror films, but in terms of the participants, they've been few and far between.
I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.
What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.
I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.
Until I was 16 or 17, we had no water. My mother had to cook water in a kettle, and once a week I was bathed, and that was it.
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.
I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.