JUDGE REINHOLD

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

I was welcomed into some nightclubs in Chicago that no white man's ever been in.

Eddie Murphy is a great entertainer.

I didn't get a lot of industry action after 'Fast Times.'

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

When I was a kid growing up, I liked the sympathetic characters played by Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, and James Stewart. They were my heroes. No matter what happened to them, they survived with their dignity intact.

I want to do things of significance, things that will inspire people to know how good life can be.

I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

People are flooded with information every day, and normal guys everywhere try valiantly to stay up with all the technology. But they can't quite do it. I know how those guys feel.

Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

'Harvey' continues to be both a charming and hilarious play.

The only people in my whole life that have ever called me Edward are the police because it's on my license.

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

I frowned just like Winston Churchill on his worst day, and I reminded my father of a judge who had presided over a case... I've been Judge ever since I was two weeks old.

I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.

I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.

My father was an attorney.

It's very easy to make a movie that confirms the worst in us.

I'm not the comic innovator that Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are. I can't just come out with an incredible line.