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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.
Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.
Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.
If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.
Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.
I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!
There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.
Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.
Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.
The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.
I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.
It's hard to predict what kinds of people are going to enjoy it [film]. And what people ain't. That's the movies. You never know.
There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.
Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.
You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.
My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
I had a brother who died early on - he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn't expect that. That was utterly shocking.
I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.
Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.
People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.
The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
Asians narratively in shows are insignificant. They're the cop or the waitress or whatever it is. You see them in the background.
I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.
There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?