“The less people know about me, the easier my job is.”
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“I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.”
“I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.”
“I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.”
“There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.”
“That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.”
“I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.”
“It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.”
“There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.”
“I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.”
“I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.”
“When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.”
“Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.”
“I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say 'Wow she looks healthy.'”
“I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it.”
“Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.”
“I love the theater of the mind because you can go anywhere. You can say anything, and you pull people in. [You] can be jumping out of a window or riding a cow or having bubble-wrap sex or spraying your body with Pam and sliding out of your chair.”
“It's sweeping through our society faster than crack. [Except] with crack you could say, 'These people over here are doing it, adn these people aren't.' You can't do that with Ecstacy now. Everyone's doing it.”
“The people who make the greatest wines in the world, they love their dirt, they pick it up, they coddle it, they kiss it, they put it in a jar and it sits on their mantle in the living room, because they know. They know.”
“A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.”