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When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together.
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.
I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.
I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.
If I'm going to follow a god, why would I want to follow a god of my creation? That would be an alcoholic idiot nitwit jerk god!
Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
You ever spent eight hours acting in water? It's a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.
Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.
I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it's probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.
God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.
Luca Changretta's not someone you want to be at odds with. It's a fantastic opportunity for me, and he's a fascinating character.
I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.
Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.
Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.
We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'
Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).
Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.
The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit - not the superhero, but the common man.
As a father and an ex-wrestler, it's a dream come true. To be able to come back and be included in 'WWE 2K17,' it's a huge honor.
I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.