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I never, ever wanted to be an actor.
I think people like watching edgy things.
You want people to watch what you're doing.
I really believe that you never stop learning.
If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.
I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.
In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me
In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.
My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.
I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.
I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.
To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.
So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.
I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.
There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.
I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.
I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with.
I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.
The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.
I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.
I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.
The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.