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I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
There's an immigration problem in every country that has money, in that people there have a problem with immigration.
As a kid, I saw a lot of scary movies, but they were mixed with comedy, like 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.'
I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.
Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
The first several years I was an actor, I sort of eked out a living playing thugs almost exclusively until 'Robocop.'
I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.
I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.
My first commercial ever was a Dr. Pepper commercial. And then I did a Mountain Dew commercial. A lot of soft drinks.
I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
To those that feel down and out…Let today be the day you stand up & fight. Let today be the day you say I won’t quit.
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.
I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.
Its tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.
I'm very thankful I'm finding my way, and people are excited to bring me into roles that demand a certain complexity.
I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available.
I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.
My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
Before I left to go to college, I was living in Orange County, Anaheim Hills. And prior to that, I was in Long Beach.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.
Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best.
When I'm not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I get the next part.
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.
Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.
Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.