| Upon playing Batman: "I've
done an absurdly commercial cartoon and now I'm more likely
to hired for a job I couldn't get hired for before, because
I hadn't done enough movies. It's so rare when an actor gets
hired because he's right for the role - it just doesn't figure
into it."
"Big movies are fun and it's great to fly on private
jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected
with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life."
"It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many
ways that I can't explain."
"The only time it's ever like work is when you don't
like what you've done."
"I think John Holmes is one of the first twenty or fifty
people that fulfilled Andy Warhol's prophecy that one day
everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. People who had
nothing to do with pornography, or had any interest in it,
knew who John Holmes was. And somehow it was famous, at least
in LA, that Canoga Park was the pornography center of the
planet. I still don't know why, but I knew that as a kid."
"I've done a lot of jobs that were just for money or
were just the best things around at the time."
"There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast,
the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of
screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more
than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments
are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest."
"New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but
home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable.
I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling,
difficult work. It's like acting, to be successful at it,
you have to work hard. I take it very seriously."
on theater roles ... "It's the most fulfilling
thing I can do and get paid for."
"Poetry is a very subjective and intimate expression.
It's literally your heartbeat. Your rhythm. The song of your
soul. It's superconcentrated. It's a dense piece of yourself."
"The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved
in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored
guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get
to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're
just acting and reacting in those circumstances."
on western movies ... "I'd be in a bad
Western on a good horse any day of the week. It's such a fantastic
genre of film."
"My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish
my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing.
I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher
and higher. I try to surpass myself. That's all. But I also
know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled
by the smoke and mirrors."
"Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that
their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding
themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial
goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have
a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies."
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