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Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.
It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.
I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.
When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.
Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.
I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.
Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!
When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.
I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.
Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up".
So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.
You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.
If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.
I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.
I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.
When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.
Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.
Glasgow's really friendly, with this impressive mix of real solidarity and identity that's very personal.
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.
In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.
I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.
Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.
The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.
I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.
My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.
Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.