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I'm a huge fan of sports movies.
Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.
I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
'Fatal Vision' was basically the first thing I did on camera.
Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.
In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.
Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.
I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.
No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.
I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
A lot of times evil - or, in the case of comedy, stupid - is more interesting than the hero.
You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.
Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.
I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.
It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.
I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.
To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.
Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.
You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
It's always appealed to me do to something that is whatever 'steady' means in this business. That's what I've kind of searched for, because, having a family, it's the best situation.
If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.
Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.
There is many different paths of a career. I bounce around and do a lot of different things. It suited me that hopefully I am prepared to do different kinds of styles, genres, or whatever you want to call it.
Clint Eastwood is a very soft-spoken, humble guy, actually, which helped put somebody like me at ease, who had never worked with somebody as huge as that. I'm sure that's not always the case with legendary people.
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.