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I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.
I really like 'Project Runway.' I know it's reality, so that might be kind of faux pas for me to say.
I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.
The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.
What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games.
Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say.
In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.
I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.
The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.
'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.
Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.
'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.
A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.
I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
I played a doctor on 'Chicago Hope' 15 years or so ago, and I did go and watch an open heart surgery.
I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.
I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.
As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.
I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.
Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.
I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.
I'm kind of pleased with myself that I've got a tailor on Savile Row. I'm 68 years old. I deserve it.
Even if you do a great performance, if you have a weak link in the film, that's all anyone remembers.
Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.
Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.
It's up and down, and people are going to love things you do, people are going to hate things you do.
I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.