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Good material is good material.
Screaming is hard after a while.
I'm just glad to be able to work.
It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.
I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.
I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'
Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.
Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'
Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.
I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.