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I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.
One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.
I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that
You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
Your best T-shirt should be like your bed, it just feels like you are home when you are in it.
We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.
Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.
I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.
Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
The way I look at it, you've got to quit your TV series before they'll consider you in movies.
When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.
My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.
In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.
I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.
There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'
I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.
John Logan pretty much does the Woody Allen thing of just bringing people in and meeting them.
Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?
That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.
To work with anyone you admire and respect, and have for a very long time, is a surreal thing.
The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.