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I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.
I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people.
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.
I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.
The Hoff has taken over David Hasselhoff. David Hasselhoff really doesn't know who he is anymore. Everywhere I go, it's The Hoff.
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.
I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.
The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.' I laughed a lot, and the romance got to me.
Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.
I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.
I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?
I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.
It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments and very welcoming.
I hope my fans will grow with me. I want to be like Michael Jackson: 5-year-olds love his music, and 75-year-olds love his music.
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
Wrestling pretty much consumes my thoughts. I think for people that are really successful in this business, that's the way it is.
I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
I love cheeseburgers, really good Italian food, and really good Mexican food. I look the way I look because I've practiced a lot.
Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.
Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?
There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.
If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.
You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!
The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.'
Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.
I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.
I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.
When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.
I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.
I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.
I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.
Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.
It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.
I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.
My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.