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Quotes
The talent is in the choices.
It's important not to indicate. People don't
try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall
asleep in my own movies.
Don't talk it (shooting a scene) away, do
it!
Some people say that drama is easy, and
comedy is hard. Not true. I've been making comedies the last couple
years, and it's nice. When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a
guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a
bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell
at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
I think Hollywood has a class system. The
actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the
asylum. You've got to look at the whole studio structure. There's these
guys. We call them suits. They have the power to okay a film. They're
like your parents, going, 'We have the money.' But at the same time they
say to us actors, 'We love you. We can't do without you.' You know, I've
been around a long time. I've seen the suits run the asylum. I think I
can do it as good or even better. Let me try it. That's why I have
TriBeCa. --Chicago Sun- Times, January 8, 1998
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome,
and I always say, There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting
city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.
I've never been one of those actors who has
touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on
wether I was to be an actor or a personality.
The whole thing is for younger people who
are sexy and youthful. - on acting
The characters that I play are real. They
are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any other
characters. There are other characters I have played, other than those
ones that have been called stereotypes or whatever. So. (His thoughts on
the 'mobster' characters he portrays in a lot of his movies)
People treat me with a bit too much
reverence. Look at Dustin Hoffman. I always envy the way he can speak
and be smart and funny and so on. I just can't do that.
I don't like to watch my
own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.
I
go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no
place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now.
That's the way it is. That's it.'
I
think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but
the truth is they're running the asylum.
I've
never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating
human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a
personality.
It's
important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they
try to hide them.
One
of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives
without having to pay the price.
The
characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much
right to be portrayed as any other characters.
The
talent is in the choices.
There
is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
There's
nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
When
you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a
hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's
face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an
hour, and you go home.
You
learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and
always keep your mouth shut.
You'll
have time to rest when you're dead.
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