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Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.
You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.
I probably have to move out of New York. I just can’t live in New York anymore.
Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.
When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.
Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.
I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.
My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.
On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.
It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
The things I talk about in my comedy are my experiences. I just do what I know.
A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.
Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.
The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.
My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.
When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.
Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.
We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.
We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?
It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.
I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.
I can't even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.
I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.
If I'm going to be on national T.V. without my shirt on, I've got to look good.
I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.
I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.
I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.
One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.
My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.
It's a wonderful thing when your trainer is actually the person you're playing.
For me, I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.
I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.