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I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."
I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.
I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.
You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.
I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.
When you're a young black man, you're not allowed to be emotional. One of the reasons I act is people pay me to be emotional.
You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor.
I don't want to intimidate people. There's nothing bullyish about me, you know. If there's anybody who's anti-bully, it's me.
William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time, and as a fan, I want to make sure that I do him justice.
If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.
If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.
I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.
In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.
It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.
To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.
Every morning I wake up and see my beautiful wife is like a gift. She gave me the gift of love and gorgeous wonderful babies.
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.
I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.
I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind of a good thing.
I've actually always been into suits. But I never really wore them, I guess because I was too young and it didn't feel right.
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.
You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.
I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!
You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.
I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things.
Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.
My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.
In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.
Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.
If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.