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Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.
I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes.
For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.
I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?
I just love action movies. People are like, 'What comedy movies did you grow up watching?' And I'm like, 'Not many.'
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate
Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.
I try to make a point in my life to leave the cell phone in the car sometimes, to try to unplug as much as possible.
I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.
I grew up practically getting into this business because of David Letterman. I wanted to do comedy-based interviews.
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.
So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.
I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.
Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing small or big comedy part. It always has the potential to be a blast.
What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.
It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.
"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.
One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.
We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.
Rocky Horror Picture Show' was my gateway drag/drug. I was somewhere between 13 and 16 when I started going to that.
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.
Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.
I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.
Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.
I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.
I think I'm probably a better sport. You tend to really just freak when you lose. You have a real hard time with it.
I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
I'd really like to give back to the world, but everything I've achieved, I've earned on my own, so what's the point?
If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.
People always tell me I should run for president, but I don't think they'd give me enough time off to make my films.