In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It’s sure been tough on my nails.
I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.
You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.
I don’t even own a cell phone.
I’d prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, “Please, just don’t talk about me!” Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn’t want them to tell anyone anything about me.
We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
It’s very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.
My motto is: more good times.
Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
I didn’t know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn’t know.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We’re in a race against time, until we run out of money.
If you’re going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain’t – take two!
I only take Viagra when I’m with more than one woman.
When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!
I think that’s what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There’s no melodrama; there’s no device, It’s just about a human being.
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I’d hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
I don’t have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.