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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.
During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.
Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.
I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.
My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.
The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.
The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.
Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.
Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.
The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.
Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.
I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.
I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future.
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.
I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.
For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.
For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.
There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.
Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.
It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.
Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.
Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?
I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?
I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.
I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?
I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.
I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.
I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.
I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.