Robert Forster
Robert Forster
Robert Wallace Forster, Jr.is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, Lebanese terrorist Abdul Rafai in the 1986 action-thriller The Delta Force and Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has appeared in films such as Mulholland Drive, The Descendants, Me, Myself & Irene, Firewall, Alligator, Lucky Number Slevin, Psycho, Olympus Has Fallen, and its...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 July 1941
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.
You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.
Grant wrote the melody and it wouldn't leave my head, so I grabbed it and started work on the lyrics. It worked really well, too.
People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.
Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!