I always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.
AARON ECKHARTYou have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you’re going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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If you go to YouTube and look up ‘grief’ you can find them and it’s just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It’s like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
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I’d like to do a romantic comedy.
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I’d like to do more family dramas.
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You can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.
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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.
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Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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I have a dog and sometimes I’ll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I’d bawl like a baby.
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I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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Actors aren’t fighters. They don’t know how to throw a punch. So, there’s a lot of hitting in the face. I’d much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don’t like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I’ve worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I’ve worked with… Sir Ben Kingsley.
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If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I’m allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
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I’ve not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I’m a very physical guy.
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I think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you’re going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.
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I would like to direct.
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The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
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