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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.
It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.
I think someone's sexual orientation is great fodder for gossip. But again, it's non-news to me or anyone who knows me.
I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.
I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.
There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.
I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.
I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.
Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.
Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
It's one thing to work, but it's another thing to work on a show where people stop you all the time to say nice things.
I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.
I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.
When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.
If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.
I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know.
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.
I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character, it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.
Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.
We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.
I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.
Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.