I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my ob
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.