Mak Quotes

"I`m at ease with myself, maybe. I`m happy to be making records, by getting away from the music business I was in a good mood to do it you know, it`s just the fun of doing it and just trying to sustain the energy and the interest." (On enjoying the process of making "Cloud Nine")

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work. When I`m working on a film, I just play the absolute purity of the moments. I don`t worry about the pacing, because the pacing is going to be dictated by the director and the editor. On the stage I have to give pacing to the play. As an actor, you, in fact, become the editor of the piece, in terms of the timing. You are required to engineer the pace yourself. In television, everything is in so close, that you realize that most of what you do has to register in your thought process.

(1999 Quote): I`d like to be an action hero, but I don`t think they`d ever make me that type of leading man. I`m too quirky. If they put me in Speed 3, two days later they`d go, "Yep, we`re gonna have to fire him now. Can we get someone more mainstream?" I like to make weird choices. If you watch Paul Newman, or even Cary Grant, they weren`t always thinking good things. Who knows what the hell Cary Grant was thinking? He could be smiling at a woman and having some really dirty, nasty thoughts. That`s what made them interesting leading men.

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are your`s as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or film making is all about... it`s as simple as that. I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

It`s a continual problem when you don`t have the lead. There`s always the possibility you`ll get cut; you have no control. If there`s a scene with a character who isn`t the lead and if it threatens the main story or detracts from it in any way, it doesn`t make a difference how good it is. It goes.

I haven`t seen this region, or many others for that matter, that are this balanced where you play a solid team each week. There are no games on the schedule that you can point to and say `we should win that one,` ... You can`t relax on any week. But I think that makes everyone better.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It`s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn`t as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that`s where you will find success.

I was scheduled to go to Paris next week and I was really sweating it until yesterday when the conference was canceled. Yes, I`m in the business and I understand that the statistics are in your favor when you fly, but I`m just like everybody else -- I don`t make decisions based on statistics.

" Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."