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I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.
Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.
I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"
I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.
Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.
Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.
It's just cool to be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.
I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.
You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.
I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.
Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.
Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.
It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.
At the end of the day, I'm greatly appreciative of all the fans that I was able to acquire over the years.
It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.
I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.
If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too much.
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.
The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.
I've been a huge fan of the 'Jurassic Park' movies. It was one of the reasons why I wanted to be an actor.
Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.
I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.
If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
I ran into Ben McKenzie a couple of times on the streets of L.A., and we hung out one time, and that's it.
You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.
I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.