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I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.
I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.
You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get really round and soft.
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.
It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!
No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.
If you are dating someone in New York City, and they invite you over to watch a movie, they don't really want to watch a movie.
I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down.
My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role.
You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.
All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
I dont know if youre familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and youre soaking wet within 10 minutes.
Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'
I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.
As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.
And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
I want to play the regular guy who's had a bit of a jaded past or a bit of a tortured soul because I think they're interesting.
You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.
I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.
Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.
Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.
He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. I'd love to do a job where I could wear Thom Browne.
Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.
I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.
For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.
The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.
We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.