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You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.
I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.
Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.
I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!
I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.
My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.
All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.
I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.
I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.
When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.
Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.
After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.
Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.
I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'
I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.
Your director is your main support - actors don't generally give each other advice on set, not in my experience.
I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes.
Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.
The white male is one of the easiest things to be. There's always a job; there's always something for you to do.
My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.
I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.
I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.
I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are just incredible.
I loved the army, but it didn't really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.
I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.
I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.
I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.
It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.
When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.
Guy's guys are of course welcome! But my audience runs the spectrum of humanity. There's something for everyone!
It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.