“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” UsedGuyWeekTrainingCastsRadioRoughPlusSignalsRiders Author: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” SaidRememberHurtSeeingNew YorkBillsPhonesShooting Author: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” PeoplePlayPaidI RealizedHobbies Author: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” HoursWeekSixStressPressureTiredConstantSense Of HumorHysterical Author: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” IfsWellsKindConcernedConfused Author:Tom Berenger
“I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders” StoriesActorsTalkingBunchRoughRiders Author: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” PeopleThinkingSidesExpressionVacationLocationHere And There Author:Tom Berenger
“I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon” DoneEnoughGuyComedySixScripts Author:Tom Berenger
“I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time” CareersPercentSatisfied Author:Tom Berenger