Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.
I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?
If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
