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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.
Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.
Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.
After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.
I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.
As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
Howard Dean is narrowing the field of potential running mates. It's down to Mike Tyson or Bobby Knight.
Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?
I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.
I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.
When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.
Quentin Tarantino doesn't beat Hal Ashby, and he's one of my favorite directors. Quentin is incredible.
I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.
When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.
I'd like to spend a day in Jesus's life. That'd be the most insane thing ever. I would love to do that.
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.
I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.
As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.
You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.