Sunday 30 October 2016

On acting


Back in '54

It's 1995. Bob Mitchum, aging bad boy of Hollywood. Noir icon. Working with indie filmmaker Jarmusch on postmodern Dead Man. Mitchum tells him, “I saved up a million dollars acting and spent it on a horse farm in Tuscon. Now when I go down there, I look at the place and realize my whole acting career adds up to a million dollars’ worth of horseshit.”  


Shirley McLaine said he was a ‘poet with an ax’.