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Everyone in the world knows 'Spider-Man.' And to be accepted into such a large franchise was overwhelming.
I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.
Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
If you're bullied your entire life you want to be able to just scream to the world 'well that's who I am!'
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.
After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?
When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don't play that three-day rule. Maybe that's psycho.
It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.
The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.
Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.
Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.
I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.
The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.
I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?
Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?
'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.
Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?
Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.
Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.
I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.
Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.
I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.
I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.
It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.