I Don't Look Back With Any Bitterness,

I’ve Never Agreed With The Conventional Wisdom That ‘actors Are Great Liars.’ If More People Understood The Acting Process, The Goals Of Good Actors, The Conventional Wisdom Would Be ‘actors Are Terrible Liars,’ Because Only Bad Actors Lie On The Job. The Good Ones Hate Fakery And Avoid Manufactured Emotion At All Costs. Any Script Is Enough Of A Lie Anyway. (what Experience Does Any Actor Have With Flying A Spacecraft? Killing Someone?) What’s Called For, What Actors Are Hired For, Is To Bring Reality To The Arbitrary.

Sobriety Was The Greatest Gift I Ever Gave Myself.

When I Was A Teen Idol, I Was So Goddamn Pretty I Wouldn't Have Taken Myself Seriously.

I Like The Tradition Of Ordinary Men In Extraordinary Circumstances And How They React To Events Which Force Them To Be Heroic In A Way That Is Not In Their Natures.

I'd Done Light Comedy. In Some Quarters, About Last Night... Is A Romantic Comedy. So It Wasn't Like I'd Been Doing Sophie's Choice My Entire Career. But For Whatever Reason, Nobody Had Really Given Me The Room Or The Ability To Be Out And Out Funny. And Lorne [michaels] And Mike [myers] And Chris [farley] And Dana [carvey], That Crop Really Helped Me Do That.