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I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.
But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.
It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.
But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.
The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.
Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.
A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.
You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.
I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
I find in L.A. that you ask people how they're doing, and the immediate answer is, 'Oh, I'm very busy,' as if busy is the goal.
Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.
If I go to a restaurant, or if I'm at an airport and people recognize me, it amazes me that most of them know me from 'Grease.'
I love how restaurants work. The energy, the pace, and the idea of working under budgetary restraints reminds me a lot of sets.
Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.
Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!
In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.
I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.
If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.
Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. Its really fun to watch that.
Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.
I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.
A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.
I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.
Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.
I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.
Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.
If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.
It's funny when I get recognized on the train. People either say ‘I love your show, dude’ or ‘Hey, where do you buy good weed?’
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.
I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
I didn't work for more than two years. I sat on the couch and waited for work to come in. I got depressed, went into the abyss.
I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.
My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.
In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.
I wear a lot of things for fun. Sometimes Ill wear one item that is deliberately stupid because that will make the outfit cool.
When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.