Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think there is anyone on the team with an overwhelming ego," Fish said. "And that's very important...
...think there is anyone on the team with an overwhelming ego," Fish said. "And that's very important...
...most impressive for Hawthorne, who moved from South Africa to London in 1951 and spent the next quarter-century as a journeyman waiting to be noticed via an endless series of character parts, walk-ons and outright rejections at audition. He may not have helped his cause with sufficient ego. "Only at 50," he admits, "did I fully realize I wanted to be an actor." At that point, Yes, Minister made a star of Hawthorne, who bears a striking resemblance to Ralph Richardson. In the past few years Hawthorne found roles that fully challenged him: as novelist-metaphysician C.S. Lewis...
...spirit!" Good guy, bad guy, these are the same man: a smart, volatile, mean sumbitch with too much on his mind. "Damn, I'm good," Jones murmurs in Under Siege, implying few others merit that appraisal. He has the stare that kills. His eyes can burn holes in your ego...
...lives to make movies," says film critic David Chute, who produced the new laser-disc set of The Killer and observed Woo close up as unit publicist on Hard Target. "He's without ulterior motives, so the set was remarkably free of backbiting, infighting or ego fits." Woo was unfazed by Hard Target's $18.5 million price tag, about five times the size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says...