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I read biographies of the greats, and they were so messed up that I thought I`d better mess myself up. But I couldn`t. I`m too small.

It`s a very instinctual relationship, a reaction to something in the script. I read a script and ask myself, "Is this a story I want to tell?" An actor is really a storyteller and sometimes the story being told is as important as the character in the story. Sometimes, I look at a character and say, "I don`t know the first thing about this person, who she is and where she`s coming from." That fascinates me. I know in order to get there I have to do my work, to think through in psychological terms who this person is and examine her whole thinking process. Sometimes you recognize certain elements of yourself that you didn`t know were there. I also write biographies of my characters ever since Animal House (1978). I even do some research into the background if it`s important. I create the character`s history, who`s her family and other things. It really does help.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. I saw some movies with Montgomery Clift and James Dean, and I read biographies about them - then Marlon Brando - and I got it in my head that I wanted to be an actor. The first scene I did in an acting class was from In the Boom Boom Room", by David Rabe. I played "Big Al". It was a very violent and emotional scene, and I liked that - I realized I had it in me."

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

There`s the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people`s lives, things that had really happened.

Although history textbooks contain facts and information and historical fiction provides entertainment, well-told biographies bridge the gap for children by combining historical accuracy along with engaging stories. It is time to bridge that gap for the middle grade student.

A president can discover the secrets of leadership (through presidential biographies),

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.

I love the Italian culture, it`s a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes...I just love it! Sometimes I think I`m an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman`s body.

I`m very aware of my own background. I`m Irish, French and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to native American. We`re talking about tiny drops of blood.`` I`m more proud of that film than anything I have created. - on Brokeback Mountain (2005). I spent a lot of time in the early part of my career staying within the same realm with a lot of my film choices. I don`t regret that, considering that my first movie was ... a very popular film. So, all of a sudden, I had opportunities, I had attention, I had buzz and heat and all those things that people tell you you are supposed to work for and I didn`t know if I could act. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content.

I`d love to be Tom Cruise. For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content.

Money is my favorite thing in the whole world. I write songs You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content. IMDb is powered by Perl and we are hiring!

(Richard Nixon)`s a conservative... and if he became President, we could expect Republican policy would switch to the right.... He is a filthy, lying son-of-a-bitch, and a very dangerous man. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content. IMDb is powered by Perl and we are hiring!

It isn`t often that an actress gets to spend so much time on ONE job. In the acting business, you usually go from one thing to another.`` (on being an older mom) My thing about having another child was, time`s-a-wasting! I thought about being an older parent and what that means for another child, but I was somewhat of an older parent when I had Sarah and Jackson in my late 30s. I have an enormous family with many cousins, and Esmé has an older brother and sister. So, I felt it was okay to do this. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content. IMDb is powered by Perl and we are hiring!

We don`t want women to really know men, because then they`ll find out how much we need them. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content.

I did a scene after a huge rainfall and there was all this crap floating around in the water. We finally found a clear spot and started frolicking in the waves before looking down to see something just below the water. It was a big bloated dead guy. I let the coroner`s office remove the body. I wasn`t going to try saving that one. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content.

I want kids, a family of my own. I`d like to give them the first eight years of their lives in the country. Then I`d want them educated, which I wasn`t formally, although I had a tutor once when I was twelve. At times I miss a formal education, but at others I thank God for everything else I have now. What I have got from my childhood aren`t toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. It`s a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies. I`m having a kind of hard time keeping my head above water in this crazy business. In Stand by Me (1986), I realized that what I was creating was going to live on far longer than anything of me as a person. The characters are more powerful than the person that creates them. I would get songs sung to me, like `Old Man River, `or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I`ve really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don`t think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it . Sometimes I hear stuff like `Hey man, wheres your skateboard, dude?` from people who think I`m Christian Slater. We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year. (The Animals Voice Magazine - 1989) I don`t see any point or any good in drugs that are as disruptive as cocaine. It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have a moral objection against somebody`s sexuality, it`s like telling someone else how to clean their house. Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it`s a universal disease. We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I`m glad I didn`t have a traditional upbringing. Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. We are taught to consume. And that`s what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it`s just a mind set, that it`s just an addiction, then we wouldn`t be out there stepping on people`s hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. People wonder if I`ll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That`s why I`ll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix. Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn`t know what the words meant. When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn`t such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I`d ever done. I can`t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I`m probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn`t like selling a product I didn`t believe in. Music is my main goal, but I`m not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don`t want to do it because it`s the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right. Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling. Music is a hobby, because I`m not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. It`s a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies. I`ve been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead. I remember we`d roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I`d tell the attendant, `I`m going to be an actor! I have twenty personalities on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head! I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she`s not going to get it from me because she hasn`t earned it. But I`ve been basically lucky because I`ve met mostly nice girls - and that`s what attracts me. I don`t want to die in a car accident. When I die it`ll be a glorious day. It`ll probably be a waterfall. I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings. I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I`m interviewed. It`s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they`ll print the truth. I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it. I wouldn`t eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars. I`d like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to experience things. I`m really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I`m Joe Straight. I`m just a normal guy doing a job! I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That`s neat. When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can`t mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. 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All I can say is thank God `Buffy``s off the air, I was starting to feel like Susan Lucci (on winning her first Saturn Award). Where Are They Now (March 2005) Daughter, Olivia born You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. Browse biographies section by name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home | Search | Now Playing | News | My Movies | Games | Boards | Help | US Movie Showtimes | Top 250 | Register | Recommendations | Widgets Box Office | Index | Trailers | Jobs | IMDbPro.com - Free Trial | IMDb Resume Copyright © 1990-2008 IMDb.com, Inc. Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. An Amazon.com company. Advertise on IMDb. License our content.