Christian Slater Quotes
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.
If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.
As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.
The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.
I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.
I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.
That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.
Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.
How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.
I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?
As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.
Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
