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When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.
In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do.
I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport.
You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think.
'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
Working on the franchise and getting direction from George Lucas - it's something that I never thought would take place.
Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.
Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of his movies.
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
I always look at a girls shoes. And if they’re wearing heels, i wonder how she would look if she was just wearing those.
Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.
I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.
Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.
The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.
The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.
I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.
I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!
Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.
I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.
When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently.
I don't want to be known for bad things in life, ever. I should be known for my work. People should love me for my work.
You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.
There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.
People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.
I like thrillers. That's a genre that I'm really taken with. I love Hitchcock, that thriller style. I'm a student of it.
Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.
I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one.
There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.
When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.
When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.
I just think streaming feels like it's the future. It allows people to watch things in a way that fits into their lives.
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.
I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.
As a kid, my nickname was Tarzan. I never wore shoes, and I walked around and fished and camped out and just was a grub.