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I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.
In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.
I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.
It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.
The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.
my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker
It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.
From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange.
I auditioned for the role of Jamie Mitchell in 'EastEnders,' and it was between me and Jack Ryder, and he got it.
It's a luxurious complaint to have as an actor, but playing the same character for many years can become routine.
I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.
Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.
Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.
I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.
Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.
I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.
At the highest level of your craft, you don't have to play games or make people feel small; you can just embrace.
People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
You can't ask the women to do anymore. It's time for us as Black men to step up and be what we're supposed to be.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?
When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.
Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.
You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
When I was a kid, Blade Runner was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.
You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.
I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings.
On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.
On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.
I'll be straight with you. It's not easy to sell tickets in Vegas. I'm up against Celine Dion and Britney Spears.