Michael Beck

I just love being here with all the fans. I see kids coming here, eight years old, and I go 'How do you even know about this movie,' i found out something today. One of the stunt guys who played one of the Furies, he came up to me and told me, 'Thirty-seven years ago, you broke three of my ribs with a baseball bat.' I told him I was sorry. I didn't mean to.

entertainment

To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.

well movies become classic

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

movies imagination wonder people

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

my-life day life art

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.

your someone you writing

Doing audiobooks is kind of an actor's dream because you get to p... by Michael Beck

Doing audiobooks is kind of an actor's dream because you get to play all the parts.

doing you dream play

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.

myself me man time

Driving a tractor never appealed to me. But I never wanted to go into business. Had I not accidentally fallen into acting, I would probably have gone home from college and farmed.

me driving business home

My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.

always building brother tree

I had not grown up on theater - in Hughes, Ark., you went to see a movie on Saturday. So my acting heroes were movie stars. It was a natural thing for me to want to get into the movies.

movies me you stars