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[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.
If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.
There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.
The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.
I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.
It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.
Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.
What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like what's on TV!
I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.
In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything!
Our reputations precedes us. If I know someone is not nice, not kind, an asshole - I generally don't want to work with them.
I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
My father, he was a strong guy, a handsome guy, and a hard worker. I don't believe he ever missed a day of work in his life.
You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.
When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.
We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.
It was a no-brainer for me to go on 'Mind of Mencia,' I think. And actually, it was a lot of fun. It was a really good time.
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.
I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?
Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.
In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.
I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me.
I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
I love Charles Bronson. He didn't have a lot of range, and he wasn't a great actor, but you couldn't take your eyes off him.
Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].
The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.
I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids.
And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.
If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.
What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.
Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.
Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.
I loved doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for free.
I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.
I'm a really spiritual person and I've never experienced anything. In fact I'm thinking of taking this ghost tour in Philly.
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.