I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.
In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.
It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.
When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.
I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.
Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me.
Batman: Bruce Wayne? Uh... who's that? Sounds like a cool guy.
Nice Guy Eddie: Larry, stop pointin' that fuckin' gun at my Dad!
