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Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"
I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?
I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.
As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.
When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'
You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.
I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them, and they both landed pilots.
When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.
You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.
As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.
When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.
I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.
A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.
I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.
Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.
I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.
One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.
I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.
You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.
I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.
The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.
When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.
I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.
In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.
What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.
I was the only guy who is referred to as Mr. Smith in the New York Times and in the same week as Sexy Rexy in some teen magazine.
I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.