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One of the biggest things I think we all can do is just try to live the best lives we can, and seek the best.
It's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.
I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.
He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.
I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.
I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.
Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.
Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.
A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.
Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.
Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.
Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
It annoys me when people can't differentiate between the character and the actor, which is a little bit silly.
If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
Love is my family and friends. That close-knit circle that sticks by you through the years and through it all.
People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.
When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.
I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.
I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said.
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.
That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.