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The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.
I love feeling strong. You pick up your daughter with ease while everyone else makes a little grunt when they pick up their kids.
I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.
I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.
You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.
I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.
In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
I've heard when girls meet 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, they throw up on them and faint. I wouldn't want to get thrown up on.
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.
In the summer, 80 per cent of what I eat comes from my allotment. I grow everything from beetroots and leeks to apples and plums.
I watch a lot of English films but one of my favourites is 'Gladiator.' It's epic - if it doesn't get you fired up, nothing will.
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.
I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.
Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.
I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.
You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.
Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.
I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.
I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family - just a lot of responsibilities.
I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.
The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.
I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
I also like to get out there to promote a positive message about the importance of family and faith and of doing the right thing.
There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.
'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.
Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'
I'm so grateful to be born in the times I live in and to be provided the opportunities I've been given. I'd be wrong to complain.
I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.
In the fourth-grade talent show, my buddies and I dressed up like the California Raisins - they were big then! - and lip-synched.
What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.