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And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.
If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.
I love the man that [Peter Berg] is, the father that he is, and the leader. We push each other in a way. It's competitive.
Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.
I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius.
I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"
You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.
I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?
I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it.
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.
There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.
The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.
People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I can't just be Miranda.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.
No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.
I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.
Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.
'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.
This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.
Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'