This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
I gravitate towards gravitas.
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
If you’re comfortable on a horse, you’re comfortable on a horse. It’s like being on a motorbike.
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one’s life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It’s something you always have to work at; you don’t get perfect at golf. It’s the never-ending quest for betterment.
When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I’d get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.
We humans are more concerned with having than with being.
All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.
And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.
It’s sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you’ve got a writer who’s clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?