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People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"
Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
I don't think I've ever been asked to act out bad sex. It's not my style. I've been blessed with good rhythm.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.
I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.
Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me
I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'
If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.
I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.
I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years.
Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.
I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.
I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.
You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.
Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.
Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.
Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!
I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward.
Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.
My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.
It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.
I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.
My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
I enjoyed working with everyone on the cast [of the Ghost Team]. We knew we were making a pretty weird movie.
It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.
And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.
The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.