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I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.
I'm very happy with my decision to go sober. It's helped my life. It's helped my mental stability.
I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.
The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.
We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.
I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.
One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.
I enjoyed retirement the right way... linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.
I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.'
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.
The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.
I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.
In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.
Keenser is a smart alien. I try to bring a little bit of comedy into it, but he's a great thinker.
I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.
I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.
I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.
Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.
[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.