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I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous.
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.
I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
I was in 'The Outsiders,' which was a good launching pad for me, but 'The Karate Kid' sent me into a different stratosphere.
When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.
You're nervous because you're afraid of the outcome. Accept the worst outcome... You'll be free & fight like you're able to.
I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.
Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.
I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.
In terms of partying and reckless abandon, I'm Don Juan. But, in terms of my heart, I'm the most loyal man you'll ever meet.
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.
I go to work, and I work very hard. I'm loyal, generous, true, kind, fair - all those boxes are ticked. I'm going to Heaven.
Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.
I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.
What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.
I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.
I don't really see the point in washing your hair. If you don't care if your hair's clean or not then why would you wash it?
I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.
I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.
In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.
To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.
How long does it take to make 'They Think It's All Over?' It's just laughing at each other and thinking, 'Aren't we clever?'
I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.
It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.
Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.
I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.
I was introduced to spinning. It was so intense! It's the hardest workout you've ever done, and afterwards you feel amazing.
I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.
I was a little, tiny kid in the '80s, but I do remember seeing the styles of clothes, and I remember the cars from that era.
Most of the people I admire as actors didn't make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.
In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.
Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.