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Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.
When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.
Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.
I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.
When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.
As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.
I've been lucky in life, that's for sure, but it all started with being born in the greatest country in the world - New Zealand.
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.
I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.
There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.
Sometimes I look at Helen Mirren on stage and think, 'You really are the Queen.' You see people bowing to her at the stage door!
Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.
You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.
I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.
My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying.
I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"
You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special.
A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.
Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.
I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when in reality I'm not.
Start drinking vodka instead of beer, and try to get a six-pack as early as possible and you'll be a much more successful actor.
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.
When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for me.
Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?
The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.
What was good about 'Moonraker' was that we had Jaws back, because after 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' he became a well-loved villain.
You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.
I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.
I personally feel like an exorcism movie without God is like a western without hats. Sure, you can do it, but why would you try?
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.
I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.
I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.
I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.