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Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you.
Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.
I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.
And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.
I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.
I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.
Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.
I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.
I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.
The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.
There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.
I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.
Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.
Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.
Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.
In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.
I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.
My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
It's important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.
Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.
Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.
I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.
Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.
The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.
I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy!
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.
I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.
I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."
I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.