Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I’m one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
Hey, if I don’t have a job, I don’t know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I’m ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I’ve never retired. I don’t even know what it means.
It’s seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I’ve worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that’s the only one that’s happened with, simply because I adore his work.
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?’
If you’re going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don’t have to go and learn how to cut open somebody’s scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
If I wasn’t acting, I have no clue what I’d be doing ’cause I have no other talent.
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn’t live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
Working on stage is really a great voice developer.
I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.
I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.
All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.
I’ve travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.
Most of the time it’s the role. Sometimes it’s the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It’s the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I’m saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
These walls are funny. First you hate ’em, then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.
I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
Stage is really hard work. You’ve got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it’s a title. Don’t go around asking executive producers what they do because they don’t do anything, alright?