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While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky.
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.
And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.
I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.
I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.
There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
There is nothing interesting about just seeing me doing the show then seeing the fans and how much people love me.
I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.
TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.
I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
There are structural problems within the industry that are preventing us from displaying aspirational black roles.
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.
The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.
I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.
Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.
Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.
I don't think I'm an actor who takes their characters home with him. But I certainly do take the preparation home.
Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.
I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!
Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.
Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet
As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.
He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.
I haven't even seen you successfully talk to a woman since I've known you, unless of course, you count Alex Riley.
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.
I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.
When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.