I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.
I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.
Movies are movies, television is television.
Questions about acting are difficult.
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
