If you don’t daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
The idea is that one’s temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That’s not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.
If I ended my career, I wouldn’t mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn’t have to remember lines every week.
The tango is a very interior dance. It’s not an exterior – it’s not flashy and all over the floor. It’s a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.
I love working in Texas anywhere.
Look, Hollywood’s a mecca, but it’s not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that’s it.
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
When I’m at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.
It’s like kids playing house: ‘You play the father, I’ll play the mother.’ You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It’s a game – acting’s a game.
There’s no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
Some people say, ‘Do you have any theories on acting?’ And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don’t have to go anywhere, you don’t have to go for the result.
The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a given day and then I’m ready. I’m ready to go. Not that I always have that fear, but sometimes that’s the only thing that would keep me in bed more than just the laziness.
The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.
I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.
We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There’s got to be something hereafter.
I like the good feeling movies.
I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.