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I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.
Comic-Con is a bizarre world. It's wonderful. It's nice, feeling the love. Everywhere you walk, you feel the love.
Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.
I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.
Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.
I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.
It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.
The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.
I don't want to sound too carried away, but from what I've seen, 'Bingo Long' is going to be a big one. A classic.
I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.
I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same way.
It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.
For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.
I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.
I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.
In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.
I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.
I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.
I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities.
You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.
I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.
I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
When you sign onto something, you want the character to be redeemable and likeable, hopefully, and understandable.
I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.
I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
I would not rule out a musical. What I will categorically say is that I will not be in a 'Peaky Blinders' musical.
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.