 Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well. |
| To me, success is choice and opportunity. |
| When I first started out, I was a bad actor. |
| I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges. |
| The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. |
| We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. |
| I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience. |
| I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. |
| I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. |
| All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor. |
| My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them. |
| The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie. |
| I've never wanted to be the boss. |
| I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top. |
| Parenting is an impossible job at any age. |
| You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit. |
| I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity. |
| There is no child left within me, none whatsoever. |
| It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted. |
| I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. |
