I don´t want people to forget me.


I would rather quit while I was ahead. There´s no need in overstaying your welcome.

If I have some celebrity, I hope I can use it to make a difference. The true social reward is that I can speak my mind and share my thoughts about the enviroment and civilisation itself.There´s so much shit happening with people who are exploiting their positions and creating a lot of negativity.

I wish sometimes that I wasn´t as conscious as I am.

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It´s our duty.

In simplicity is the truth.

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.

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 then toys.

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbugs - it´s a universal desease.

I would never, never do anything unless I believe in it.

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 wouldn´t eat a Hamburger, for 40.000 Dollars.

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 have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

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 twenty personality on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head.

Every day of my life since I finished "MY own private Idaho", at some point in the day, I find the conversation somehow goes back to that film, because it was such a great experience. I just start getting all joyous and start bubbling about it.

In "Stand by me", 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 powerfull 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 have really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. I felt appropriate. Before that, I don´t think it quite fitted me.I had to grow into it.

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 somebody how to clean their house.

Vegetarinism 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´s just an addiction, then we wouldn´t be out there stepping on peoples hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

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.

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 i had 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.

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 an fullfilling.

Music is a hobby, because I am not making any money out of it, but I put just as conviction into that as I do into my acting.

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 insted.

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 treatments, she´s not going to get it from me because she hasn´t earned it.But I´ve been basically lucky because I have met mostly nice girls - and that´s what attracts me.

I´d like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to experience things.

I was feeling very lonely for a while,I`ve never had friends before now. I was always moving and I never wrote postcards or letters. The only people I`ve known are Martha, Larry, who`s a friend of the family, and my brother and my sisters. Because we traveled around so much, I never wanted to stand out like an awkward newcomer so I adopted a neutral attitude around people. I`m not that a social a person anyway, and it takes a lot for me to get involved in a relationship



To be continued

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