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I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad while you're here.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
The last girl I went out with blew me off. Now I call her with lame excuses to see her, "Hey, did I leave a penny over there?"
I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.
There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.
Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.
Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.
It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.
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."
I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.
For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.
In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.
I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.
I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.
I dont want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything thats a lead.
You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.
You know what I worry about? I worry that when I hit my head, it pushes my hair into my brain, and it will eventually kill me.
I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.
The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.
There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.
Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.
Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young
If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fck off.
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing
The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.
I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.
We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.
Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.
The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.
I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.'
You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.