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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
I walked two hours to an audition once and was so sweaty that someone said, 'Oh, you guys from New Zealand don't shower.'
Often audiences vary... but I've always found Milwaukee to be a fabulous place to play with great audiences and very hip.
I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.
It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.
I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.
The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.
I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.
I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.
When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.
I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.
I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.
To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
The egg, you see, is a very sexy thing. Egg is like birth. Eggshell is sexy. Egg yolk is definitely sexy. Oh, I love egg.
I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.
I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.
You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.
It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.
I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.
It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.
My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.
Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.
When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.
At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks.
If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.
I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there's certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.