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Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling a product I didn't believe in.
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
If I have some celebrity, I hope I can use it to make a difference. The true social reward is that I can speak my mind and share my thoughts about the enviroment and civilisation itself. There's so much shit happening with people who are exploiting their positions and creating a lot of negativity.
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
In Stand by Me (1986), I realized that what I was creating was going to live on far longer than anything of me as a person. The characters are more powerful than the person that creates them.
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
I have twenty personalities on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head!
I would rather quit while I was ahead. There's no need in overstaying your welcome.
In simplicity there is truth.
I would just look at Harrison [Harrison Ford]; he would do stuff and I would not mimic it, but interpret it younger. Mimicking is a terrible mistake that many people make when they play someone younger, or with an age difference. Mimicking doesn't interpret true because you can't just edit it around. [on his interpretation of a young Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)]
I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've met mostly nice girls - and that's what attracts me.
I remember we'd roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I'd tell the attendant, 'I'm going to be an actor!
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.
I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.
I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.
Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.
I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year. (The Animals' Voice Magazine - 1989)
I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.
I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.
I wish sometimes I wasn't as conscientious as I am.
It still strikes me as strange that anyone can have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.
It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.
I'm having a kind of hard time keeping my head above water in this crazy business.
Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
I want kids, a family of my own. I'd like to give them the first eight years of their lives in the country. Then I'd want them educated, which I wasn't formally, although I had a tutor once when I was twelve. At times I miss a formal education, but at others I thank God for everything else I have now. What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.