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"I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing."
"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences."
"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."
"[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed."
"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."
"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself."
"The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up."
"I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster."
"Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do."
"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."
"There is no child left within me, none whatsoever."
"The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all."
"American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie."
"I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage."
"I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects."
"I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types."
"I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan."
"I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports."
"I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me."
"There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before."