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I feel like a lot of performers' worst shows happened in Philly. There's something about that town.
I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.
Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.
I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.
If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.
I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.
I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky.
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.
First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.
I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.
I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.
Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.
I never used needles, but I was into heroin, cocaine – those are the things I’ll never touch again.
I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.
Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
I think that you're always going to have some people who are negative or view you in a certain way.
My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.
I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.
I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.
The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.
I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
Early on, with any startup show, you're really building credibility and making it stand on its own.
Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.
I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.
Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.
When you're a child actor, part of you grows up really fast and part of you doesn't grow up at all.
I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.
I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
That's basically what I did every weekend when I was a kid, just go and see two movies per weekend.
But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.
I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.