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I love to dance. I think it's so much fun! I love classic Motown, hip-hop, pop, whatever has a good beat and is uplifting.
'The Leftovers' is my favorite job I've ever had in my life, anywhere, ever. It is one of the greatest TV shows ever made.
At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
I'm a control freak except that I'm a good team player. So I obsess about the details of things but I also trust the team.
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.
Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.
From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.
I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.
Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.
It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
I've been incredibly fortunate to be able to have different opportunities and be able to choose, which is kind of amazing.
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.
Inherently, I'm not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes.
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
I've never actually played a Zelda game. I've played other N64 games, like Goldeneye, Mario Kart, they were my favourites.
I will talk to people who say they loved 'Tales of the City' or 'Far and Away' or 'Love and Human Remains' or 'Barcelona.'
The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously, and it has yet to be properly lampooned. So it's time for a wedgie.
I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.
The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.
I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
You know, I don't want to waste my time by being in a movie where nobody remembers my part. That's not interesting at all!
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.
I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.
I love student life, but I also loved, from a young age, being in a working environment where you are treated as an adult.
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.
There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.
There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.
Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.
I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.