Tom Berenger Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.