American Quotes

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.