You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

Tangled Moon ~ Sometimes you have to break the rules. Sometimes you have to let go of the past. And sometimes you have to accept the impossible.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

Do unto others what you want done unto you.

Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.