Tom Berenger famous quotes

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

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March
-- Tom Berenger

#Fighting #Years #Shooting

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day
-- Tom Berenger

#Summer #Real #Kids

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state
-- Tom Berenger

#Frustration #Remember #Incredibles

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood
-- Tom Berenger

#School #Tails #Hollywood

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.
-- Tom Berenger

#Running #Mean #Kids