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Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
The most important thing in your life is to be happy, to be patient and to learn to love life and do everything you can.
I feel like a new person. Not because of my career, but just because of what I've had to go through to pursue my career.
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.
You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
I'd love to meet Gandhi. And Christ. I'm sure he'd be interesting. And a lot different than a lot of people would think.
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'
The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.
I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.
I never knew that ["Hank Zipzer"] would happen in my life. It is one of the greatest things. It is like a gift from God.
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'
My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.
If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!
I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.
I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual - I am just me, Jackie.
I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.
It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.
I have to at least get a couple weekends in where I can just be on Santa Monica beach or Malibu and just ride the waves.
There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thorton's brother-in-law.
Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts.
While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.
There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.
I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!
Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.
Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."
There's nothing I've ever worked on that beat 'Game of Thrones' - that's a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.
That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.
I didn't care if it was 'Daredevil' or 'Captain America,' I was a fan of all of it. It was just a part of my growing up.
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.
I’m prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.