I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?
I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.
I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.
My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.
If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.
The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.
Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
Acting is very immediate.
Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
