94 Quotes by Thomas Jane

There's a fine line for me between character acting and leading man acting - the best is a combination of the two.

Our agency is community based, so we have tried to adapt to fit the needs of the community. We are not the same as we were 40 years ago.

As a kid, I fell in love with the EC Comics from the '50s. It was illegal to produce horror and science fiction in the state of New York because of EC Comics. They just went over the line. Their covers were hangings and brutal stabbings.

Your inner life has to be rich enough that it's going to translate onto celluloid without you having to do anything. That's my favorite kind of acting, and that's also the hardest to do. And it's also the most underappreciated.

It was a great experience. It helped me clarify a few things.

There's the film that comes out in a public way that you see with the masses, that you go and publicly see and participate in a film, right? Then its reaction is a public reaction. Your opinion becomes part of that public reaction and is in some way, whether you like it or not, molded by that public reaction.

Generally I just look and see if it would be a movie that I would pay $7.00 to see... What is it, $9.00 now?... $9.00 to see.

When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them exactly for what they are. That's the fun for me.

Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it.