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It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.
If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do [Smokey and the Bandit], and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason.
I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.
We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.
I've been profoundly germophobic since I was a young child. I don't want to kiss anyone but my girlfriend for my whole life.
I work 15 hours a day and still go to the gym. Most people work eight hours a day and say, 'I haven't got time to work out.'
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.
I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.
I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.
Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.
I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.
It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.
I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.
People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.
Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.
Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.
If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.
Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.
I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.
I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.
I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense.
I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'