Actor Quotes

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

Food is a passion. Food is love.