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Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.
I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.
It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.
You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.
I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.
Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.
You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.
I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.
Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.
I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.
Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.
I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.
Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.
I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.
I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.
I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy.
In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.
I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.
You have got to have a good sense of humor, you have got to be tough, and you have got to know how to dress.
My showbiz career started with 'SNL,' and to write an 'SNL' book... well, there are already enough of those.
I have a guy who does my hair. He's a car nut. And he was taking motorcycle lessons. And, what was my point?
I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.
Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
I think its nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.
There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'
I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?
I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.
What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.
I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.