 I am not a cynic. Topics: Short |
| One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well. |
| There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out. |
| When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors. |
| I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. |
| I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. |
| Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. |
| I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? |
| Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. |
| If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. |
| I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. |
| If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. |
| We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. |
| I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. |
| I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. |
| You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted. |
| Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? |
| I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. |
| I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen. |
| I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been. |
