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Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.
So I'm wearing that today. And I wore it yesterday, too. Maybe I'll wear it tomorrow. I just collect stuff, I guess.
I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.
There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
When you're a kid, Kermit is Tom Hanks. He's Tom Hanks for kids or Jimmy Stewart for kids. He's truly the every man.
Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.
All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.
Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.
As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.
I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.
I think there's still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them.
Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.
I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place.
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.
I always bring my Jiffy Esteam steamer to get the wrinkles out of our clothes. It's powerful enough to press a suit.
I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.
We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.
All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people - and whatever it takes to show other colors.
I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.
I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.
The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'
I'm comfortable with bad news. I feel confident in my ability to solve the problem if I know that there's a problem.
There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.
People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to.
I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.
Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.
I never even was in any of my high school plays. I mean, look at me. What role could they give me - the tooth fairy?
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.
You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.
My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'
It's funny when guys don't like to talk about makeup. I'm like, "You know you're wearing makeup, right? We all are."
Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.
My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.