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There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.
If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her Boss' with Melvyn Douglas.
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.
When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.
I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
I view having celebrity as having capital, and I don't know a better way to spend that capital other then helping people.
'Dancing With the Stars' has become a phenomenon, and when I look at that type of reality show, it's like a variety show.
I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?
I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.
Someday I'll get married, and on my wedding day they'll be saying, 'Okay, we have to ask about that infamous Oscar kiss.'
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.
I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged.
Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.
No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.
I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.
Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at their feet.
I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.
There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you.
I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.
I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!
I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.
Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.