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The beauty of comedy is you can really push things. Hopefully, you're with people with a sense of humor and can relate to it.
Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.
I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.
I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it’s like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.
I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.
I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.
I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'
If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.
Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.
There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.
I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.
All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.
The day of the 'Partridge Family' type of show and the 'Brady Bunch' is long gone. The old 'Ozzie and Harriet' days are over.
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.
We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.
I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on 'Torchwood.'
it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my path is going to go.
When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.
I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.
Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.
I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.
I haven't watched a lot of television, but when I was kid, I watched 'All in the Family,' and I liked Archie and Edith a lot.
I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.
I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.
One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.