top of page
Quotes by Actor


"Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks."

"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."

"People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday."

"I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house."

"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."


"If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all."
Fear,

"I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing."

"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate."

"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."

"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants."


"And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child."


"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question."

"I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with."

"I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it."


"I don't really get a chance to watch much television."

"People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood."

"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me."

"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."

"Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity."

"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."

"Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes."

"So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder."

"Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years."

"That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings."

"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."

"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."
bottom of page
