We boil at different degrees.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.

Personality. Gotta have some kind of personality and you don’t wear your personality on your body. It’s gotta come from someplace.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I’m pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

You know the people who are there are there because they love the music. It has nothing to do with Saved by the Bell or any of that crap.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I’ll try that.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Acting, directing and producing in a film when you have no budget and only nineteen days makes it extremely, extremely difficult.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are...

I only have 8-10 kids in my class. I read the press articles to them about Lost in Space and tell them about it. I’m like their little internet.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn’t seem to be much stopping.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don’t think so. It’s modern. It’s a part of today’s world.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I don’t like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

There’s a discipline. When you take someone’s portrait, you don’t have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that’s the image that you took.

It’s so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we’re wrong, and often we’re dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It’s seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of...

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in...

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn’t straighten my legs.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I’m not a trained artist, I couldn’t sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they’ll make another one.

But I’d shot enough independent films as an actor, one as a director. I knew that you have to be very specific when you’re shooting a period picture.

The thing is, I’m a very practical filmmaker.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to...

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I’m just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this...

It’s become so much about personality. A lot of Hollywood, they don’t work on acting, necessarily. They don’t see you’re gonna fall, make mistakes.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I’ll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Well actually, some weeks they’ll write that I’m jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they’ll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It’s ridiculous!

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they’ve heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That’s sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it’s understood that what should never have driven them apart almost...

I was famous from birth.

So it’s been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

As a journalist I’m comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that’s going on around the world right now, it’s just good to go to a movie where you don’t have to...

I’ve been very fortunate in the things I’ve had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

You don’t want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Straight people say, ‘You know you’re just gay,’ and gay people say, ‘You know you’re just gay.’ There is such a thing as bisexual!

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

I want to make someone walk straight, but I’ve left my sons nothing but wars.

I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I understand it, but had retained the film rights.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I’m one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it’s not a driver – art imitates life.

We really have to reconsider what it is that a public person gives up. Why does a public person give up all his or her rights to privacy?