Vapid Quotes

When I got to L.A., my family had me go to dinner with this guy who had been acting here for 20 years. He gave me this big lecture and said, "You know how much money I made in 20 years of acting? Eight thousand dollars. And I`m a carpenter." He was just really unhappy and it was depressing. Then he got really stoned and I went home and felt sick. I think it was just morbid fear. I was 18. That fear stays with you so intensely and you`re constantly just getting turned down for what you think of as the most vapid, stupid kind of paycheck, "Baywatch" (1989) things, and you think, "Jesus, if I`m not good enough for this, then I`m not going to make it". This town is too hard, and people were always telling me, "You`re too big, you`re too tall, you can only play bullies and you will never be a leading man.

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don`t want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don`t want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That`s what I do.

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don`t want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don`t want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That`s what I do.

I don`t mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they`re such a bunch of idiots, why don`t you show them good music instead? They`re not going to know the difference.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.