I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.
As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don’t want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.
I’m very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I’m positively against it. I don’t have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It’s human nature.
If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, “Oh I like a person who is like this and that,” you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great “literateur” of his time.
Women – a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?
It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren’t, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.
Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he’s the man, and I still feel that underrates him.
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.
I’m very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I’ve always got on just as well with women.
I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I want out of life and I like to be around other people who are also pretty secure. It just makes things easier.
I don’t know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That’s what we got from the women’s movement. The chickens have come home to roost.
Once you’ve been really ‘bad’ in a movie, there’s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
I love discourse. I’m dying to have my mind changed. I’m probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
I’ve always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don’t see any interesting alternatives.
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don’t know why.
There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.