Tony Goldwyn
Tony Goldwyn
Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwynis an American actor, producer, director and political activist. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated film Tarzan. He stars in the ABC drama Scandal, as Fitzgerald Grant III, President of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 May 1960
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that
Life is a very emotional experience.
Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.
We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.
I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.
I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
Nothings wrong with honest emotion.