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On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself?
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.
There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.
I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.
I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.
If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.
The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.
I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.
So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better.
I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.
I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.
Life is often confusing and sad, and I'm a big fan of the slap and the tickle, as they say.
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.
Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.
A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.
I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.
I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
It's very tough to run my side of the line. Eight out of 10 plays, they don't get anything.
I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.
Neil Simon didn't like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.
I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.
A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show
Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.
I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.
I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.
Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.
I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.
I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.