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Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles
I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.
If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.
It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.
I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.
When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.
I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.
It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.
People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'
Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.
I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.
If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.
My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.
Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.
My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.
I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.
The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.
May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.
Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last.
I keep it wrapped until i meet the right one 'Cause I ain't Mumford, I ain't trying to have sons
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.