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Quotes by Actor
"I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?"
67
"My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing."
67
"I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies."
67
"I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand."
67
"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."
67
"It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning."
67
"One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant."
Rain,
67
"I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style."
67
"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."
67
"It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?"
67
"Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before."
67
"Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely."
67
"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."
67
"Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone."
Fear,
67
"I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs."
67
"What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it."
67
"I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business."
67
"He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in."
67
"I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision."
67
"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends."
67
"They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option."
67
"When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic."
67
"I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry."
67
"I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs."
67
"We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism."
67
"A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?"
67
"The world is very different today than it was in 1968."
67
"I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view."
67
"Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?"
67
"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."
67
"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
66
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