Tom Berenger Quotes

"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Performance)

"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Business)

"Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit."
- Tom Berenger

"Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough."
- Tom Berenger

"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
(Related: Humor, Day, Pressure, Sense, Stress)

"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
(Related: Business, Right, Television, Years)

"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
(Related: People, Will)

"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
(Related: People, Expression, Vacation)

"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
(Related: Training)

"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
(Related: Thought, People, Beginning)

"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
(Related: Mistake, Wonder)

"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
(Related: End)

"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
(Related: Work, Day, Military, Training)

"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
(Related: Hurt)

"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

"My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Mother, Father, Sister, Windows)

"I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: People)

"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
(Related: Thought, Friends)

"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Death, Fighting, March, Project, Years)

"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
(Related: Acting, Irish, Rebellion, Writing)

"I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Time, Career)

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

"In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for."
- Tom Berenger

"Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Home, Forget, Now)

"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
(Related: Family, Time, Day, Kids, Summer)

"I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: History, Actor)

"I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: End, Hollywood, Old, School)

"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
(Related: Frustration, State)

"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Being, Care)

"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
(Related: Health, Kids, Sleep)

"I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Actor, Old, Talking)

"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
(Related: Difference, Night)

"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
(Related: Time, Books, Old, Research)