Tom Berenger Quotes

• You can’t think that you’re playing a villain, or you’ll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

  Tom Berenger

• While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn’t getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.

  Tom Berenger

• We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn’t have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

  Tom Berenger

• To people outside, they think, Gee, that’s great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation.

  Tom Berenger

• This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don’t know how these things do. I don’t know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people.

  Tom Berenger

• These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don’t even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

  Tom Berenger

• There’s a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

  Tom Berenger

• The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who’s somewhat like them.

  Tom Berenger

• Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they’re not always tough.

  Tom Berenger

• Sometimes I think I’m real predictable to myself and other times… you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

  Tom Berenger

• Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

  Tom Berenger

• My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

  Tom Berenger

• Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you’ve seen it.

  Tom Berenger

• In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren’t responsible for.

  Tom Berenger

• I’ve done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

  Tom Berenger

• I’m probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

  Tom Berenger

• I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It’s about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.

  Tom Berenger

• I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.

  Tom Berenger

• I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I’ll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn’t.

  Tom Berenger

• I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that’s about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

  Tom Berenger

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Birth:	31st May, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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