Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
You cannot pray them out of hell.
We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
I improvise whenever I feel it’s important, or whenever I think that something’s there. It’s nice to have a script that’s so well-written that I don’t have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.
Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
I don’t want to have a relationship with someone if I’m not going to work with them.
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
I love the financing. It’s fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don’t want to be this, “He’s an independent film guy.” It sounds like, “He makes his own dresses.”
When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that’s why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn’t fall asleep. That gift I have still.
You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
The Best Way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.
I try to be available for life to happen to me.
People think because they employed you they’re allowed to treat you like a dictator, or whatever the worse word for dictator is. And that’s always been a problem for me. Opening the door for someone behind you is as important as designing a building.
There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can’t conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.