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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.
I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.
There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.
American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.
I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.
The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.
That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.
When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.
I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.
Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.
I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.
I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.
People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!
I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.
This is NOT a pretty good business. You cannot be pretty good and be a national headliner. That becomes the allure.
My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.
We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.
I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.
I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.
My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.
Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.
Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.
I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.
It's not about celebrity or not. It's all about, do you have that 'girl in a cardigan' in you. You gotta have that.
I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.
My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.
I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.
Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.
The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.