The secret of my success is my hairspray.
I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest – it doesn’t exist.
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.
If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.
I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.
In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It’s part of my job.
I’ve lived in New York when I’ve had nothing, and I’ve lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It’s the texture of life.
I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.
I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.
I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.
It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.
If you have any question in your mind, don’t do it. If you go in thinking it’s going to fix something that’s wrong, don’t do it.
I haven’t worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That’s a particularly deadly attitude to have when you’re working on a film.
Any political situation has many sides. We intellectualize the whole situation any way. We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.
Sometimes I’m kind of spacey. I’m like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what’s going on in the real world.
I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I’m sure that doesn’t work for many people.
It’s rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don’t want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.
Editing a film is always a question of time, and the director. I’ve worked with a lot of directors who don’t mind my involvement. They appreciated it.
I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.
It’s human nature – we want to believe our children, our families, our President!