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I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.
I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."
As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.
To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.
My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.
I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.
You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.
I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.
I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.
I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.
In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.
If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.
Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?
Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.
Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's why I don't think it will date.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.
My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!
All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.
I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.
I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.
I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.
"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
Any Latin dance, whether it be salsa, cha cha, samba, etc., is very sexy for me to see a woman do. Using your hips is the key.
It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.
The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!
What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs, are stories.
After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
If you look at Earwolf, we've tried to have a really diverse stable of hosts. Even my show can get a little 'dudey' sometimes.
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.