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I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.
When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.
If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.
I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.
I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
In L.A., there are so many people that are focused on being healthy that it's unhealthy.
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
Guys I’m kind of nutty, but you have to understand that that’s all just me being myself.
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
I'm a professional comic. Whether you think I'm funny or not, that's, again, subjective.
I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.
Anytime I see any of those people [from 10 Things I Hate About You], it's always lovely.
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.
I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.
You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.
I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.
Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.
I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.
I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.
I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.
I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.
Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.
It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.
Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun
I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.