A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.
The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.
Sometimes art imitates life.
'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.
Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.
Liberace was a lovely guy.
I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.
There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.
I haven't played a lot of nice guys.
I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.
I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.