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The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.
My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.
Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.
I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.
If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.
I think 'Westworld' and 'Hap and Leonard' are two of the greatest things that you can do with this oversized pool of the television medium.
I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.
I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.
I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.
You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!
I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
Defensive lineman in the 3-4 isn't a glory position. He is supposed to tie up as many linemen as possible in order to free the linebackers.
I'm flattered to be called a sex symbol and, on occasion - if I've had a nice bottle of Beaujolais - I can imagine myself really being one.
I mean, Cheers [from the Star Wars] was just a job while we were doing it. All of us were really only hustling to pay the rent, weren't we.
A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.
I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?
I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.
The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.
I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
I'm very old fashioned. I'm from an era where your phone is in the house so if you are pottering in the garden then you won't hear it ring.
I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people - with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don't forget me.
I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once.
I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.
I think Little Nicky was a divergence from the films Adam Sandler was used to doing, and he was taking a risk. I admire him for doing that.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me
Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing
I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'
My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.