Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I’d be used to it after all these years, but it’s like it’s happening for the first time.
I think there’s a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
I’d maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.
Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.
I don’t know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in – and once you’ve chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
My brother’s my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
You don’t really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I’ve certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.
If you’re married you’ll have tough times.
Mania is a wonderful feeling.
Words fall short sometimes.
Play doesn’t have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it’s still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.
My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the ’60s ‘Sea Hunt,’ where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.
That movie, ‘Airplane!,’ what a landmark film it was. It’s a great, great movie.
There are some actors that want you to call them by their character’s name and they have no relationship with you outside of the character. But I like to get to know who I’m working with so that we can relax together, and it’s more fun.
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can’t fully realize it until you have children yourself.
One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you’re constantly surprised. You never know what’s going to happen, and it’s certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.
I’ve done several commercials and I’ve done voiceovers for documentaries.