Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit.
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.
There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom.
For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor.
My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life.
I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect.
I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s.
The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!
I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public.
We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures.
Play is play, fun is fun, and work is work. They're different. I work hard; even if it's supposed to be fun for someone else, it's work for me.
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.
I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy.
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.
