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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought to stick around and direct this thing.' But he didn't; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director.
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.
- Francis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020