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My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.
To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.
While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.
Another show I really enjoyed working on was Raising The Bar. I did four or five episodes of that show.
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.
If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
In comedy, you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.
I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.
My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.
I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.
All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.
I think, in any debate, you have to respect the other person's point of view, if you agree or disagree.
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.
I think sometimes we get wrapped up in awards... ultimately, it's just a moment in time, and it passes.
Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration... it's mentally draining.
It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.
I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.
I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.
When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.
In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.
I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.
Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.
I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.
At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.
Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.