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It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.
When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.
Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.
People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.
I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.
My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.
With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.
I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.
There were a lot of fan-made trailers for 'The Originals.' The fans sort of decided it could be a show before anyone else did.
When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.
In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.
I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
Work begets work. I've always taken the jobs - I've tried to take the jobs where the story is full or the characters are full.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
We've caught people watching us, and I'll look at them and I'll go, "It's just us. It's just our thing. It's just what we do."
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.
The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.
Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.
Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.
The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.
I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.
Print is definitely more nutritious. When I leave a website, I'm hungry again an hour later - especially the Chinese websites.
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful
People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.
John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.
'Power' is a beast to produce. Everyone behind the scenes brings a thoughtfulness and dauntless work ethic day in and day out.
That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.
Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.
A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.
If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.
You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.
That one was stunt heavy. 'Monster Trucks' was a lot of stunts. I got to do some insane stunts they should've never let me do.
When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
It's not all about starring in a TV show for me. It's about being able to provide opportunity and employment for other people.
I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.
I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.