Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
I act like a jerk sometimes.
Love can be seeing that here we are and there’s this world here.
The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.
I realize it’s impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.
The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.
I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that’s sort of how you’re supposed to live.
I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
I don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.
All parties are good.
You work, you get paid, you drink.
I’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.