Never rub another man's rhubarb.
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
I'm a scamp. I don't deny it. I like myself.
There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.
I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.
Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.
I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.
I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.
I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.
Once I got started acting I loved it.
I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.
