|
“There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.”
My favorite thing to do between working is go drive around the roads and highways of America camping out. So this time I'm still camping out, but I also have my house -- my canoe -- wrapped in a 'Sahara' billboard. So [I'm] combining the two -- a road trip, plus I'm selling. It's nice.
“Andy: Look at our love fern! It's dead!
Ben: No it's only sleeping.”
“Two For The Money”
“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.”
“She's got a premiere in Paris. But we're both having a great night.”
“You can make these things for cheap. This one cost $35 million. You make $70 million on 'The Wedding Planner,' you're dancing in the streets. You make $70 million on 'Sahara' (which cost $130 million), you're not dancing in the streets.”
“I thought this was a great story about a winner who starts losing, ... And if you're a winner, what do you do if you lose, and how do you get out of that hole?”
“The character I portray was not first on the list. There were others who didn't want it. One (took it), stayed a couple of days and moved on.”
“[In the film, Matthew is Brandon Lane, a former college football player with a knack for sports betting.] The guy was a quarterback, no longer able to play football because he blows his knee out, ... He ends up running a tallying service. He's the best picker in the world, he has an 82% winning percentage -- unheard of in that field. It's a shady little business he's in, there's a lot of shadows.”
“Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.”
“[Matthew said working on the film was a complete blast:] I was excited to get out of bed every morning. It was like a great dance, working with him, ... He catches a wave and rides it! It was really fun.”
“There's a [trend] happening right now of kids getting older but not necessarily moving out of the house.”
“I love to gamble, man — all different kinds of ways, ... As far as wagering on sports, I've got some friends, we make some friendly bets and sit around. As we [say], we're buying a ticket to the game because we're watching every single play. And then you win, and you get to walk around for days and say, 'I knew it.' And if you lose, you get to walk around and say, 'Yeah, but you cheated.' But basically it's friendly wagers, and I go to Vegas here and there.”
“I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.”
“such an exotic underworld that we know a little about, but not much. I've wanted to explore it for a while.”
“I was responsible for Brandon Lang, ... That was my job, to be able to make a believable character who you can understand and go through the whole story with.”
“Hey! I know you. Ask me your name!”
“We all like to be able to tell the future,”
“It was a big dance, working with him, ... It was a lot of new moves that I've never seen before, but always with the rhythm. It was a real vital experience. It's easy to go out there and tell the truth, because you're in a scene and you catch a wave, so to speak. You're not conscious of where you're going, but you're on a wave. And usually those turn out to be either the worst take or the best, but all you need is one that's the best, you know?”
“Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22 [pounds]. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!”
“I like the 'Alive' part,”
“This guy knows knows sports the way an art dealer knows a painting, ... He will tell you intricacies of the game that most guys — even the guys who bet money on games — don't know. I've done a lot of movies, but I was learning from him on this one.”
“You're like a crack enhanced Kathie Lee!”
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.”
“I'd rather wait until we're through working.”
“That's what interested me in the character of him. He sees things differently. He was not as connected to the community. He was a bit of an outsider, not local. It was let's coach football, take baby steps, do what we have to do. He likes to philosophize. He's got opinions on everything. He'll let me know. It's an honor to be stepping into his shoes. What he did was life inspiring things.”
“This guy can tell a story and boy you really feel like you've been there the entire time.”
“She's a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along.”
“And the crazy thing about you with this is that we'd be shooting wide shots [where Pitt's eyes couldn't possibly be seen] and you'd insist on those green contacts.”
“And that's the main buzz with betting games like this. Every weekend, whether I bet or not, I go through lists and try to pick winners in my own life so come Monday, if I did well, I can go 'told ya' and if I didn't do well I can blame it on something else.”
“Once we were doing a scene, and suddenly, right in the middle of the take, he stops and looks at me and says 'I don't believe you,'. That'll stop you in your tracks. When Al Pacino tells you that he doesn't believe you, you believe it.”
“No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!”
“Very seldom to you read about stories like this. It's based on something that happened ... history. I was inspired by it. It really happened and it stayed on my mind. I wanted to be a part of it somehow.”
“There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.”
“The first day we were shooting, you've got that 35 millimeter camera and then I've got two or three other video cameras and I can look into those cameras, but I can't look into the 35 millimeter, obviously, ... Well, the first day of shooting, I'm sitting there, talking to one camera and then I'm looking in all the cameras. Ron had to come up and say, 'Don't look at this one.'”
|
