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I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?
I don't know that I ever did see Star Wars as any different. I was certainly proud that I did it.
On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.
I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing
Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.
My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.
The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.
I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it.
I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.
The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.
Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.
There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.
Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.
You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.
When you see someone at 6 in the morning with a smile on their face, you know they're having fun.
In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.
Whenever I put on a colored thing, I feel like I'm in a costume. Like when I put on a gray shirt.
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
That's the trick in this business: if you want longevity, just keep people guessing a little bit.
I don't live too far from my mum so I can go round for home-cooked meals and get my ironing done.
Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.
It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.
When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.
Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.
It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!
I always tell people if you think you are susceptible to a blood clot, go check with your doctor.
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more.
So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it.
I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.