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Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background
The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.
I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.
By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.
When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.
My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.
To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
On Sanjay and Craig, Ive had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.
I always tell people I'm not one of these guys that was, like, born with, like, a halfway decent body.
I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.
Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.
There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.
People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.
I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.
The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.
Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.
It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.
I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.
They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!
I know about two things: 'Rocky III' and Clubber Lang, and 'A-Team' and B.A. Baracus. That's who I am!
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.
I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.
I had never done anything like I had done in 'Masters of Sex.' Those are some very adventurous scenes.
I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.
Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.