I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

Do what you wanna do. Really follow your dreams. Fail as many times as you can because youll only get better.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

It's such a thrill in a relationship to be able to collaborate creatively. It's very romantic, and I like it.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.

Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

Just like the rest of the world, I became a product of my environment, and this environment was gang culture.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

You just want to get it right so badly, so it's stressful when it comes to those vulnerable, dramatic scenes.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

I am one of those guys that's an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don't know how you can be any other way.

It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who

One summer, my friend and I went to summer camp, and I acted in some plays there, and I fell in love with it.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

I was one of the early guys from my generation to have hair on his face. Me and Tom Selleck, and I was first.

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