When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.
In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.
I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.
My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.
I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
