top of page
Quotes by Actor

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame."

"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."

"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen."

"I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom."

"It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus."

"Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance."


"Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor."

"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred."

"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."

"I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican."

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."


"I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm."

"The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch."


"Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?"


"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."

"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great."

"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."

"I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not."

"Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star."


"I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps."

"I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done."
Time,

"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."

"Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films."

"I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director."


"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."


"I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere."

"I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them."
bottom of page
