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Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."
Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.
I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about doing 'em.
It's always fun to play a bad guy because you get more to do. It's more arch. There's more energy to throw into it.
What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'
I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.
I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.
I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.
You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!
I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.
Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems.
[Ryan Gosling] just got by because he's a cute kid? Yeah. I was an ugly kid; "The Mickey Mouse Club" wasn't for me.
If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.
Games are another place to find work, not only the voice stuff but in the motion capture stuff. It's exciting work.
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.
If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.
I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.
The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.
The 'Age of Adaline' was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.
I am often stunned and charmed by the simple brilliance of what children say. But you have to be willing to listen.
I'm not disinterested in the rest of the world, but studies show the rest of the world is really freaking far away.
I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.
I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.
I'm not outright seeking stuff. Because all I want to do is done. I bought my mother a nice house and pretty dress.
My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.
It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."
Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.
My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"
Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.
I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.
In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.
I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.