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“There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress”
-- Tom Berenger

#Stress #Tired #Pressure
“I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.”
-- Tom Berenger

#Character #Perfect #People
“In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.”
-- Tom Berenger

#Responsible #Owners
“This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people”
-- Tom Berenger

#People #Saws #Young
“I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough”
-- Tom Berenger

#Sleep #Kids #Thinking
“I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time”
-- Tom Berenger

#Careers #Satisfied
“I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon”
-- Tom Berenger

#Guy #Scripts #Six
“To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation”
-- Tom Berenger

#Thinking #Vacation #Expression
“I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders”
-- Tom Berenger

#Talking #Actors #Stories
“Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it”
-- Tom Berenger

#Home #Laughing #Way
“Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be”
-- Tom Berenger

#Way #Should #Performances
“Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough”
-- Tom Berenger

#Character #Play #Tough
“I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy”
-- Tom Berenger

#Crazy #Night #Differences
“These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television”
-- Tom Berenger

#Running #Years #Long
“You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.”
-- Tom Berenger

#Hero #Thinking #Cartoon
“Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.”
-- Tom Berenger

#Littles
“We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.”
-- Tom Berenger

#Workout #Military #Work Out
“I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me”
-- Tom Berenger

#Writing #Acting #Scripts
“Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?”
-- Tom Berenger

#Real #Mistake #Thinking
“I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead”
-- Tom Berenger

#Stars #Care #Roles
“The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them”
-- Tom Berenger

#Character #Eight #Chill
“Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore”
-- Tom Berenger

#Agents
“You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.”
-- Tom Berenger

#Home #Long #Realizing
“I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.”
-- Tom Berenger

#Notebook #Fall #Done
“My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled”
-- Tom Berenger

#Mother #Father #Window
“Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal”
-- Tom Berenger

#Guy #Training #Radio
“I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set”
-- Tom Berenger

#Hurt #New York #Phones
“I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor”
-- Tom Berenger

#Actors #Professors
“While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing”
-- Tom Berenger

#Play #People #Hobbies
“I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't”
-- Tom Berenger

#Confused #Kind #Wells

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