It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.
I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.
Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.
I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guys who had good lives, great lives, and blew it. . . I think there are some guys who think they don't deserve to have good lives. They feel they don't deserve their good fortune, so they throw it away. One of my good friends was Chris Farley. Chris blew it. He blew the whole enchilada.
Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.
If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.
I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.
I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.
Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me. ' I should be honored, Your Majesty. ' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it. ' I should be grateful. ' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.
The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.