ALT "He was also, without question, one of the best actors I’ve ever worked with. I know that might sound like the sort of thing people say when someone dies, but I mean it. Richard was astonishingly good. He could make a line funny just by deciding not to make it funny. He could steal a scene without seeming to do much of anything. And every once in a while he’d remind you that underneath the familiar face and the wonderful mustache was an actor with a range most people never got to see."

ALT "Six years ago, I grew one for a movie we made together called 'Faith Based.' I wasn’t sure I was going to keep it. Richard told me I should. He said growing his own mustache was one of the best decisions he’d ever made. It fit his face, he explained, and gave him something distinctive. Coming from a man whose mustache belongs in the same conversation as Sam Elliott’s and Burt Reynolds’, I took that advice pretty seriously. I haven’t shaved it since. I suppose that’s a pretty small thing to carry forward from a friendship, but I like knowing that a little piece of Richard will be looking back at me in the mirror every morning."