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Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.
Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.
Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.
I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.
I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.
There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar.
I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.
Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.
The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.
Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.
I believe almost every men have some kind of fantasy for action scenes. I'm one of them, and I just can't be so sluggish.
I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.
[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.
British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.
We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.
Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!
I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."
I've done this commercial with Arnold Palmer. He doesn't play that much anymore, but it'd be fun to have him in the cart.
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.
The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.
No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
I had a fantastic time working on 'Twilight.' I loved our director Bill Condon. He was an absolute pleasure to work with.
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it.
I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.