I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.
When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that – fantasies.
If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that’s good use of your fame. I don’t try to avoid that.
I don’t do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I’m a southern boy.
Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You’re dependent totally on the material.
I don’t do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it’s funny, it’s funny.
I’ve always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
What I haven’t talked about I don’t intend to talk about.
I don’t remember what my favourite comedy film is – truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.
Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don’t know that there’s anybody left that I didn’t meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.
I’m also very fond of a light business jet, so I’d like to get it before it’s too late.
The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.
I don’t have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn’t do this, that or the other, but that’s strictly up to me.
Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
I am impatient with directors who don’t know what they want, and the way you don’t know what they want is because they want to do one more. “Let’s do one more.” So, “What for?” I guarantee you there’s not going to be a change.
Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.
I’m not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.
That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he’s doing and what he wants, and knows when he’s gotten what he wants.
The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.
There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there’s something that I want to do I’ve done it. If there’s something that comes up that I want to do I will do it.