Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked. "

Related Quotes:

" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "

" I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. "

" When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. "

" I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. "

" One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal. "

" The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself. "

" Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. "

" I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships. "

" All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. "

" Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. "

" I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something. "

" This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with. "

" While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. "

" Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. "

" I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. "

" I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it. "

" I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them. "

" The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. "

" Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired. "

" I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was. "

" I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. "

" Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing. "

" In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there. "

" Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. "

" I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. "

" People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. "

" I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not. "

" Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure. "

" But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls. "

" Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. "