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I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.
I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.
If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.
I believe one's sexuality is one's own business. I really don't go around discussing it. Call me 'old school' on that topic.
It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'
I'm always looking for work. There are only two states of being an actor, so if I'm not working, I'm looking for employment.
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.
When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.
I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.
I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.
I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.
I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.
It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.
I am an actor, and although I love music, and at times can't live without it, I eat, sleep, breath, sweat, and bleed acting.
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.
The good thing about films is, you never know how good they will be. If there was a formula, there would only be good films!
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination.
For one thing, there is no guarantee that I am even going to work again. I hope I will and will go on to have a long career.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.
One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.
If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.
One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
I suppose maybe [Wilson] would be a better person if he were able to censor himself, but then he wouldn't be as interesting.
You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
In a perfect world, everybody would be gay. I mean if everybody looked like Zach Braff, you just wouldn't be able to resist.
I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.
Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.