Dinosaur Quotes

(On Laura Dern): Well, you know, I`m very easily stirred. And she`s a remarkable woman. So I was struck with that from the beginning. But it wasn`t until the film was over that we formed an alliance. I had been discreetly casting glances across the dinosaur. It`s mysterious what attracts you to a person.

Asked whether his opposition to abortion and support for capital punishment makes him feel isolated in Hollywood: "Some kind of a dinosaur? No, you know you have to have these opinions about these things. I`m pretty firm on stuff like that. I don`t feel like I`m howling in a hurricane. I just try to do my bit the way I think it should be done."

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it`s raining, it`s terribly cold, I`m wet and I`m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I`d probably take the latter. It`s warmer and generally more comfortable!

Godzilla (Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)) was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I`m a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there`d be more subtlety.

(on his typecasting as The Caped Crusader) It was inescapable. I`d just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur would rear up and say, "But the audience will think of him as Batman." It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall.

But thinking of cinema being a dinosaur, you know what they say about dinosaurs: the brain dies but it takes maybe several weeks before that message gets to the tail. So if we`re lucky, maybe, the notion of conventional celluloid cinema has perhaps one or two generations to run. But then I`m sure, quite happily, we`ll see the end of it. I would cry no tears for it because I`m quite convinced, and there`s no reason not to think this, that all the new languages will certainly be soon giving us, I won`t say cinema because I think we have to find a new name for it, but cinematic experiences, which is going to make Star Wars look like an early sixteenth century lantern-slide lecture.

I guess it`s sort of this naive character that I play. I also do a velociraptor, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. I like writing a good joke. I like being able to use my physical-ness, like facial expressions and stuff to really take home a joke and get it across - especially like in Tiffin.

Mr Bronson was a dinosaur and when we were discussing what he would wear, I felt that he would always be smartly dressed and thought that a bow-tie would finish off the ensemble.

I like the broken up ones, I like to saw holes in them and look inside of them, ... When it comes to science, putting up a skeleton and just looking at it just doesn`t do anything for me. I want to know something about that dinosaur.

Some years ago the Smithsonian wanted a T-rex for its new dinosaur hall,

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

What`s amazing is, here`s a hillside full of dinosaur tracks, ... People drive by it every day and never realize it.