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I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.
I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.
Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.
I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.
If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.
I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.
When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.
Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.
Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.
If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.
That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.
There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.
Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.
I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.
I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around.
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.
A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'
I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.
My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.
These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.
I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.
I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.
If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.
In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.