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I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.
I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.
I just watched a ton of comedy and saw a ton of different styles, and eventually you think, 'Oh, yeah, I could be like that.'
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.
We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.
I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal.
I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.
It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.
I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.
I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.
You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.
I met the Gallagher brothers, and Noel was quoting my 'Fonejacker' catchphrases. Hearing your heroes quote you is incredible.
People say they don't want to call a call-centre in India. Why not? They're doing the same job - you just don't like Indians.
I don't worry about offending people - I think most people are a lot more robust than some other people give them credit for.
Growing up we were very working-class; you had dinner at 12, then tea at 4:30. If you got supper, you were doing bloody well.
I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.
As for cooking, I like making lasagne and spaghetti Bolognese, I have perfected my porridge, and I like making Sunday roasts.
Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.
I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.
Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.
If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.
People want to be liked by other people so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
I don't have any specific criteria on doing a drama based on where and what country. If I like the storyline, I'll go for it.
I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.
You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on.
I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.
I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.
Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.