After The Sopranos, my mother said, "Couldn't there be some raft floating under the bridge when you jumped? Or couldn't you have a twin brother?" I said, "Yeah, if they'd wanted me that bad. But they don't." — John Heard Copy Share Image
The look of the movie and the music, which was by Jack Nitzsche, is what really stands out to me. I don't know if the movie succeeds as a political, cultural comment on the times and the war in Vietnam, and the capitalists versus the everyday guy that gets sent off to fight corporate wars. I don't know if the… — John Heard Copy Share
Cutter's Way was a real test of my stupidity. Every day, it was like, who did I think I was? But people put up… — John Heard Copy Share Image
I remember one afternoon when we were out on a golf course somewhere, and Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon were sitting there in deck chairs when I went off to do another scene. And I said something like, "Hey, where have you guys been?" And they said, "Oh, we were down at the clubhouse. We saw your scene!"… — John Heard Copy Share
Denzel Washington was so great at The Great Debaters, so focused and talented. That was just an honor to be cast in that, for the most part. I was fat, and I guess the casting director sold him on me. He actually said to me during the scene, "You know, I've always found that less is more," which is an… — John Heard Copy Share
That show, The Sopranos put HBO on the map. So there I was - and then there I wasn't. Too bad. The same thing… — John Heard Copy Share Image
Paul Schrader, he's a... son of a gun. He's a very feisty, very straightforward guy. He's your auteur director. He sent me to a fat farm down in Palm Springs, I think it was, and got mad because he said, "You're just getting massages and backrubs!" He got the bill, he looked at the itemization, and he said, "You're not… — John Heard Copy Share
Nastassja Kinski is a sweetie. She's very quiet. But smart. I hung out with her mother more than Nastassja. I think Nastassja was more… — John Heard Copy Share Image
Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director… — John Heard Copy Share Image
When my agent called me up and said, "Do you want to be in a movie called Sharknado?" I said, "What is it about?… — John Heard Copy Share Image
There were a lot of things in it that were important at the time to me. Cutter's Way movie was very relevant. And I… — John Heard Copy Share Image
I did a film about child abuse with the great producer-director Richard Donner, Radio Flyer. Again, I was replacing somebody, but Lorraine Bracco was… — John Heard Copy Share Image
Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese. — John Heard Copy Share Image
