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Quotes by Actor
"People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it."
7
"I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now."
7
"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
7
"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end."
7
"I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom."
7
"I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world."
7
"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."
7
"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
7
"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
7
"I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?"
7
"I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting."
7
"Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list."
7
"I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself."
7
"But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside."
7
"All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that."
7
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
7
"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
7
"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."
7
"He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total."
Play,
7
"I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them."
7
"Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads."
Age,
7
"It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable."
7
"I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez."
Mail,
7
"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well."
7
"I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig."
7
"I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there."
Film,
7
"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
7
"I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out."
7
"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
7
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