Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
AARON ECKHARTI’m always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
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I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
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The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
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I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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I’d like to do a romantic comedy.
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I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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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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Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn’t look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there’s only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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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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But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
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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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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else’s part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.
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I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos – it was its own little ecosystem.
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I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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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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If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.
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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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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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I like doing movies with kids in them, and you’re explaining things. They’re teaching you and you’re teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.
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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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