If you’re asking me to acknowledge that I’ve gotten older, I can do that.
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.
I’ve always been somewhere down from the top, so I’ve never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.
You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
I’ve always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn’t it be great to be bald in the rain?
I don’t think I’ve mastered anything. I’m still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That’s what life is like.
Henry: Well I’m sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.
I haven’t purposefully set out to play heroes. I’m interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he’s really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that’s important to him.
No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I’m still quite fit enough to fake it.
I’m like old shoes, I’ve never been hip.
Money is really only important if you don’t have any.
I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I’m a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It’s a great job.
Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you’re starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it’s cold and miserable and be poor there?
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.
It’s a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child’s growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.
Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.
People need to see what’s going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.