With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Related I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul... PATRICK FUGIT Val Kilmer does a great job in his films. Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger are great. Robert ... CASPER VAN DIEN When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys we... JOE MANGANIELLO James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... MARK WAHLBERG Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he h... LUCY LIU A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQuee... PIERCE BROSNAN The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole yea... MARTIN LANDAU Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniquen... THOMAS JANE One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some act... RYAN KWANTEN Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily... RANDY WAYNE WHITE There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a ... ED SPELEERS I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace. CHRISTOPHER ATKINS Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniquen... THOMAS JANE When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died YOGI BERRA M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The h... LORETTA SWIT All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associat... ADHIR KALYAN Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later... DEAN KOONTZ Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightl... LUPITA NYONG'O I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type ... ED O'NEILL People last year just couldn't believe they were getting to interact with actors who played such ico... CHESTER MOORE Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones,... DONALD FAGEN I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences w... CARL WEATHERS I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] KURT VONNEGUT JR. Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that. BILLY EICHNER I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the ch... GUS VAN SANT Harrison is tough. He never stops. He's relentless on his feet. Steve battled him but Harrison is bi... STEVE KURZINGER I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. ROBERT VAUGHN Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhe... STEPHEN HUNTER Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them drama... AARON ECKHART Paul Newman is not a very good pool player. MINNESOTA FATS Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the r... SAM MENDES Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts. CHRISTIAN KANE Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutel... CARLY SCHROEDER I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as th... PAT MITCHELL There is an immense, childlike enthusiasm about the man. It's inspiring when you work with a 77-year... SAM MENDES When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma... PETER FACINELLI I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got int... NICOLAS CAGE When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Holl... DWAYNE JOHNSON Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their exp... DANNY BOYLE I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve ... BRAD PAISLEY You can ask a hundred lawyers, and they will agree that Steve Schaefer is a character. He thinks and... MARK LIPINSKI Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man HARRISON FORD I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha. JOHN WARNOCK To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great. PAUL DANO With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does hav... PAUL DANO I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everythin... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it'... STEPHEN KING All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we... DAVID LAGERCRANTZ In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wi... BRUCE FEIRSTEIN Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies. OWEN WILSON I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are. TERI GARR Beer Man is a classic, ... He's got such a great sense of humor. DAVE STOCKTON The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I could charm the birds out of everyone's trees but his CARRIE FISHER I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a phil... TREVOR DONOVAN Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, a... DWAYNE JOHNSON In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m... JOSHUA LEONARD A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he s... MAUREEN MCCORMICK He's got such a wit and sense of humor like no other. He says things that will cut you without being... MICHAEL PECA It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones... HARRISON FORD You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ... STEVE MARTIN What worries me about this whole case is that you had a man who did the right thing, who was a good ... JACK MARTIN I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I did... ED HARRIS Aaron's the guy you follow into battle. He's broad, he's got a strong chin ? a man's-man kind of per... JASON REITMAN Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll li... DICK VAN DYKE Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he? ORLANDO BLOOM There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Dian... KEELEY HAWES The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story. STEPHEN SOMMERS [As he and his father played a game of one-on-one later that day, Sam spoke up. He felt sad, but als... SAM SMITH Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.' CHRIS SQUIRE My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds o... RANDALL PARK Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they e... CHAD LOWE Poor Paul Newman had lost seven times and then finally didn't show up for number eight and then won ... TOM O'NEIL that I am equipped with what other people have called a fiendish sense of humor. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears. MARGARET STOHL I mean, how often does a security geek get to hang out with Harrison Ford? He's Hans Solo and Indian... LAWRENCE LEVINE I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the Briti... MARTIN FREEMAN You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the specta... MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or ... MAUREEN MCCORMICK [Did the two have any sense back then that they would be such massively successful and accomplished ... GENE HACKMAN Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man. SHERILYN FENN What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their pow... JOSS WHEDON You're looking for characters to tell particular stories, and then on top of that, you're looking fo... DAVID E. KELLEY My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve ... CAREY MULLIGAN I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor. MAIRA KALMAN Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry ... DIEGO RIVERA Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies. SETH MACFARLANE I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat... DANIEL ESPINOSA Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'l... DICK VAN DYKE I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He ... EVE BABITZ I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, ab... RACHAEL MACFARLANE It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley. NAVI RAWAT Indiana Jones is old school; we've moved on from Indy. Sorry, Harrison Ford. SARAH PARCAK Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and da... JODIE FOSTER Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You lov... KRISTOFFER POLAHA I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terribl... JUDD APATOW Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies ... JESSE EISENBERG Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way. JACQUELINE OBRADORS
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PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me... PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m... PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo... PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised... PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t... PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr... PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it... PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t... PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi... PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&... PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it... PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don... PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const... PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ... PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra... PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting... PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don... PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. PATRICK DEWITT