With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it’s going to translate easily.
Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.
I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you’re with yourself.
I’ve always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I’m so insane I guess.
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
I just don’t like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
I don’t want to be so confident in myself.
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren’t getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
Acting is always a challenge.
A lot of my peer group think I’m an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That’s okay.
Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don’t like being limited in that way. Therefore, I’m considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.
Worrying is like praying for something you don’t want to happen.
I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.
The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.
I’m not a method guy. I can’t be bothered to have a method. I just want to be a part of a good movie and I can’t stand to be surrounded by morons.
It’s weird when one movie that’s connected to another doesn’t reference that movie at all.
To me, friendship means loving tolerance.
And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like ‘cultural genocide’ just speaks to how bright he is.
There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.
I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals.
Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.