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I watch sitcoms like Seinfeld, and here's a newsflash, but what a great show.
How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.
There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.
The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.
I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.
Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.
I feel closest to God with a pitchfork full of crap in my hands. I'm serious!
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.
I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
I've never been in a love triangle. I would not want to be in that situation.
But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.
I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'
There is a fine line between something that's gratuitous, that's unnecessary.
I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.
The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.
If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.
Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.
Sometimes in life if you wanna do something good, you gotta do something bad.
The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.
There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.
Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.
Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.
What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.
The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.
Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.
We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.
I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.