There’s a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can’t do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.
If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it’s going to go away. You have to change.
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it’s twenty-three.
I’m a liberal. I’m confused when that became a bad word...
The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.
It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.
I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country’s political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
I’m not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now.
I’ve worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, “Whatever you want to change, it’s up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own.”
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad’s sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
The first question is something immediate – and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
What I try to do is make sure that the directors I’m working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.
Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else, it’s fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don’t happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don’t believe in those things.
Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.
When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.
You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don’t learn from success; you learn from failure.