Quotes by Tom Berenger

About Tom Berenger:

Tom Berenger is an American television and motion picture actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Platoon (1986).
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Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

Tom Berenger

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.

Tom Berenger

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

Tom Berenger

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.

Tom Berenger

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

Tom Berenger

I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead.

Tom Berenger

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

Tom Berenger

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

Tom Berenger

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

Tom Berenger

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

Tom Berenger

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.

Tom Berenger

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

Tom Berenger

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

Tom Berenger

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Tom Berenger

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

Tom Berenger

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.

Tom Berenger

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

Tom Berenger

This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people.

Tom Berenger

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.

Tom Berenger

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

Tom Berenger

Author Bio

  • NameTom Berenger
  • Descriptionactor
  • BornMay 31, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor