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Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.
All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don’t know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.
As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.
Real life doesn't exist on a network television comedy. They just don't let you travel down any road that is presumably 'dark.'
I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.
Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.
When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.
I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.
I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and will bring understanding.
You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.
We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.
World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is fighting.
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.
Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.
If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.
When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.
The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.
I don't know... I don't think you can trust any of Kurt's characters. That's how Mr. Sutter operates: nothing is what it seems.
It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.
I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.
I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky... my dad had one when he was younger.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
I’m an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that?
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
Some people end up becoming just a conservator of the one thing they did and making sure they get their merch out and all that.
While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.
Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.
I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older.
The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.
I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'
TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.
I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.
I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."
I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.
D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.
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.