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Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.
Having a family just changes your perspective on everything. For me, it was the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.
We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.
When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.
There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.
I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.
I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.
'What if?' is just about the worst question I can ask myself, and I want to avoid it at all costs for the rest of my life.
It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.
People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.
What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.
I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.
You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'
I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.
Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd tell them, 'Sorry, mate.'
I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.
In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.
I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.
Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.
My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.