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Quotes
I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.
A lot of people
tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more,
especially on the big screen.
A
lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.
Acting was the last thing I wanted to do.
After that 20-week experience of being on the set
every day, whether I was shooting or not, I was like, This is what I
want to do.
All that running around in my underwear put money in
my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having
to worry about supporting myself.
Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK?
I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.
He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down
and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I
think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with
me, but I don't believe it.
Helena Bonham-Carter was pretty good underneath that
makeup, but Jennifer is extremely sexy in this movie, not to mention
talented.
Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports.
You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment.
You have to have the transportation to get there.
I agree with anything and everything Richard Zanuck
says, because that guy is the coolest guy that I've ever met in the
business. After working with him, I feel I'm part of the movie business.
I don't like being attached without a director.
I feel I've accomplished what I set out to do which
is to prove to certain people who count that I'm capable of interesting
work.
I get motion sickness really easy.
I had been approached by a couple of people as far as
making movies because of my success in music, but it was always to play
the white rapper in Sister Act 2, or something that would just kind of
put the final nail into my coffin of my career.
I had had a troubled past, but like most rappers they
go out and talk about it to kind of help their career.
I had just gotten out of jail and I wanted to make a
record. I saw my brother making millions of dollars and I'm still
struggling, so I compromised. But they continued to push me further in
the opposite direction. I decided not to make another record.
I hadn't been on the ice for 20-something years. I
played a lot of street hockey. There was one pair of skates in my
household. They were probably about a size twelve and I wasn't even 12
years old.
I have a lot of real life experience with hustling
and doing stupid stuff.
I just realized that the whole point of doing
interviews was to promote this movie, so see it three times.
I like Eminem, I think Eminem's really talented, but
I'm trying to go a completely different route.
I like George a lot and we were supposed to do
Ocean's 11 together but a choice had to be made between Tim Burton and
third wheel to Clooney again-let me step out on my own, know what I'm
sayin'?
I love going out on the track and just flying around,
they give you a car and tell you to go-you couldn't ask for more fun.
I love my mother, man. Are you crazy? I can't be a
bad influence on anybody!
I met Penny Marshall. I certainly understood where
she was coming from, and she told me she really thought I could be good
at it. So the next thing you know, I find myself screen testing for her
and auditioning.
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not
a lie.
I prefer to be clothed. I've been on the other side
and I can sympathize with actresses who are asked to wear skimpy
outfits. I know a lot of people like to see that but it's not fair.
I remember being in my kitchen, watching the war in
Iraq, and not being fazed by it at all. You've seen worse in films.
I said I was going to wait out my contract, which
would have taken six years. That's not really a good thing for a new
artist to do.
I think I could have been a lot more successful, had
I been allowed to do what I wanted to do. I think the record company had
one specific idea, and they wanted to go for that.
I try to do as much as I can, to give back. I think
the biggest impact I can have is by actually being there with kids and
inspiring them in a way that they can relate to me.
I was going through hard times as far as how I was
being perceived in the music world, because of my association with my
brother's group.
I was in New York just for a week and I was in the
paper every day, apparently dating girls I've never met. If I'm gonna
get into trouble, it might as well be me causing it, you know what I
mean?
I was put in a position by my record company, and
kind of pushed in a direction that I didn't want to go, obviously for
their financial benefit.
I wasn't a fan of either one of those movies. I
certainly have respect for them and I thought Planet of the Apes was
amazing and said a lot of things, but it's not something that I could
really connect with.
I'm 30 years old, I love listening to music, I have a
studio in my house and mess around once in a while, but to be in the
music business just doesn't make sense to me. It seems like a lifetime
ago.
I'm basically there just to get kicked by guys in
gorilla suits. I'm still having dreams that I'm in prison with a bunch
of apes.
I'm certainly fine with my upbringing and I think
it's made me the person I am today, I just wish that a lot of my friends
didn't have to go the route that they did.
I'm not interested in playing a superhero, but I'm
glad that they're making those movies, just because they lighten things
up a little.
I'm not into sci-fi. But I think Lord of the Rings
was spectacular.
I'm trying to work as hard as possible to be the best
person I can be, to everybody. I mean, my faith and the love that I have
in my heart is something that I want to share and spread.
I've made a direct effort to stay away from anything
with street talking, street slang. I've done things that were a little
bit violent and aggressive at times.
If I had somebody to show me that it was OK to be
creative and explore your artistic interests as opposed to having to be
the toughest guy in the neighborhood, I think I would have had a
different childhood.
Immortality... Is that a super power?
The eyes say a lot more than anything.
The guys that work with me are guys that I've grown
up with, they're basically just my friends. So, I didn't have a problem
taking on the leadership role with a lot of these guys.
The world is very different today than it was in
1968.
This year alone I'll get to work again with Paul
Thomas Anderson, James Gray and David O. Russell.
Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every
penny he makes.
Usually you have a couple of weeks to rehearse and
you get to know each other. But we just kind of got thrust into it and
got familiar with each other on the ice and in the hockey rink more than
anywhere else.
When we had an ultrasound and the doctor said it was
a girl, I dropped my head for 20 minutes and then realized, I can't
freak out, because that would cause problems. But now, I couldn't be
happier.
You kind of have to be able to accept things for the
way they are, and once you do that I think you can really be
comfortable.
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