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Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.
When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
It's refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.
I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.
You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
Again, having - fortunately having never been in trouble. And eventually I found out that I was on a watch list.
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."
My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.
You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.
Voice acting is very creative, especially 'Star Wars' voice acting, because there's so much you have to imagine.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.
Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.
Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.
I'm happy being single but I definitely want someone in my life. I want to eventually get married and have kids.
I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.
I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.
The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.
Somebody once asked me, 'Melvin, how'd you get to the top?' It was simple. Nobody would let me in at the bottom.
My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.
The douchiest thing a guy could do on a date is to make a girl pay. If you invite her out and then make her pay.
It's my job to stretch and figure out what I'm capable of, to identify with the character I have chosen to play.
Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.
Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.
I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.
Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.
Every time I said, 'Man, I'm doing CHiPs,' 100% of the time they would ask, 'Is Erik Estrada going to be in it?'
I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.
I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.
An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.
I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.
I enjoy watching movies that are high concept or science fiction or have supernatural elements, like '2:22' has.
I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.