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I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.
We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.
I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.
If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.
Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."
Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.
When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.
I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
Actually, I stopped looking at myself in the mirror years ago. I wasn't making it to work on time.
I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.
I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.
I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.
I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!
There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
If I could have grown up to be Robin Thicke, I would have. But I'm glad somebody in the family did.
Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.