Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.
Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.
Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything.
I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.
Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.
It's strictly business. If I loan you $25 million, I want my money back. I don't want to hear about the social impact. That's great for you, but now I'm $25 million in the hole, so next time you come to ask me.
I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.
I've worked with children all my life.
I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.
I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.
As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.
[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.
Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.
I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust him - so I won't have to think about it or I'll try not to.
That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.
After directing the first film it feels kind of tricky being back to being in front of the camera, because I've always got one eye over there, kind of thinking of what they are doing, and how the shot is being composed. I think it takes a couple of films to just get back to just being an actor.
I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.
In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.
By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.
