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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?
Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.
Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.
The 'Hey now's' are delivered as people pass me. As I just get near ear range, I hear, 'Hey now!' and that's very funny.
I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?
One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
In 'The Humans,' there's a gay character, and the fact that she's gay is probably the least interesting thing about her.
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.
Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker.
[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.
I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.
Point me to 50 people online who think I'm super sexy. I'll point you to 50 more who say he's old and looks like my dad.
I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.
I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.
Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.
The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. Im proud to say I was the first to stop running.
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and talented as that.
Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.
I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.
Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
I loathe the very thought of airports and also airlines taking as much from you as possible and giving very little back.
[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun
I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.
There are so many negative things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing.
I have to remember if I'm at some charitable event where kids are... I try to remember don't swear in front of the kids!
At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.
I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.