Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense – the only real 12-cylinder engine – is Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Denzel Washington’s career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.
Books make great gifts because you don’t have to plug them in.
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there’s very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they’re the same 30 years later.
I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.
When I’m not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I’m going to come into your house and clean your pool.
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn’t commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn’t go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I’m not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We’re not resting until we get that done.
I think the older I’ve gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.
I think I’m just like a lot of people who had nothing.
If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don’t do that, the film goes off balance where you can’t worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.
In the film business, when you’re young, you just want to work. But when you’re older, it has more to do with who’s involved with the project – who you’re going to get in the boat with.
When you’re with someone, you want everything to be great. And that’s the pressure that you put on, and what you just can’t do.
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It’s just different.
When I told my parents, ‘I’m going to be an actor,’ they screamed and wept and freaked out.
I don’t want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I’m 75. I mean, I’m not opposed to men doing that. But I don’t think it’s gonna work for me.
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, ‘Wow, man.’ And I’ve been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
Everybody I’ve ever worked with – 99.9 percent of the time, I’ve had a successful or very agreeable experience with.