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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.
When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny.
After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.
I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.
Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.
I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.
My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written.
There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.
'Capricorn One' just seemed like... wow. That was it, y'know? Nothing was ever going to be better than that movie.
It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.
I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.
America gave me the great glory of coming into people's homes every week and allowed me to last as long as I have.
I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore.
When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.
I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.
Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.
I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.
I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!
I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.
I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.
You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.
Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.
I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.
If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.
It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.
I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.
I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.
Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.
I've got to say my mother is the most important woman in my life, and not just because she is a 'Scotsman' reader.
I love OneRepublic, The Script, All Time Low. I love pretty much every genre. I love the Rolling Stones and Elvis.
It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.