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I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.
I approach every role with the same commitment because I'm being paid for it. To not do so would be unethical.
In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.
I get migraines a lot. I get them when I'm stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.
I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.
Frankly, I'm a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of my drums.
My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.
I'm very proud of 'Calvary.' It's been doing well; it has legs. It's no easy ride. It packs a punch, this one.
I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.
Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.
All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
I've been going on Twitter every week going, 'Guys, you have to watch '2 Broke Girls' because it's incredible.
I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.
When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.
When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.
...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.
I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.
The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
'Doctor Who' is really close to my heart, and I felt like I was a part of it at the best time, with Russell T.
Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.
I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.
I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.