Robert Forster
Robert Forster
Robert Wallace Forster, Jr.is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, Lebanese terrorist Abdul Rafai in the 1986 action-thriller The Delta Force and Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has appeared in films such as Mulholland Drive, The Descendants, Me, Myself & Irene, Firewall, Alligator, Lucky Number Slevin, Psycho, Olympus Has Fallen, and its...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 July 1941
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.
First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.
Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.
Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.
It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.
The export ban has forced our beef industry to suffocate in isolation but now there is a chance it can be revived by the financial oxygen generated through access to a wider range of freer-spending customers.
Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles.
There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean.
There is an obvious advantage to the UK industry if its beef is sold in a different section of the chill cabinet to imports because consumers are likely to pay more for beef from their country of choice and we know UK beef is attractive to purchasers who are more likely to pay a premium.
Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!
People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.
Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass.
I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.
If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.