Quotes

[on the making of Highlander (1986)] For the scene we did in the church there could have been a wonderful dialogue - "God, this doesn't compare to the Greek Orthodox Church", or "I liked it better when they did it in Latin", or any type of thing. There's all sorts of twists that could have been done. I like the little twists like that because they make the audience think. "Highlander" still has its action and everything, but that's really all we went for here, the good guy/bad guy, cops-and-robbers type of thing.

[on Les Aventures de Buckaroo Banzaï à travers la 8e dimension (1984)] I think it could have done well, but it got mixed up in one of those Hollywood studio game things, where they all change places. Buckaroo Banzai was just so strange that nobody really knew how to approach it. It really is way ahead of its time.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

I have a big voice so I do all the little boy cartoons.

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

I would have had fun doing just about anything.

I am constantly amazed on every level at how lucky I am.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.