Success is not something I’ve wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that’s true, big-time success. If not, it’s much ado about nothing.
You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.
Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day.
I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I’m never in a fight in a movie and if I’m in them, I’m usually losing.
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: ‘I won’t do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.’
The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it’s just full all the time.
I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn’t really there in my high school.
As for poker, I’ve stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean’s Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think ‘actor’ and see some easy money.
I think what makes a good actor’s director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn’t that simple. So they end up doing things that aren’t necessarily good. Even if they think they’re doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.
I honestly if I get a vacation I’m gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that’s the one place I haven’t been for a very long time.
My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.
Our problem is civil obedience.
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I’m just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
I’d love to be a dad. I hope I’d be great at it. That’s every man’s fear, yet his most important job.
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
I think it’s still hard for me to turn down work if it’s really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn’t and so it’s kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.