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The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.
I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.
I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here to Eternity.
You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to - you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here.
'What's the difference between sex and love?' Hmm. That's a good question. Hey, you interviewed Al Pacino. How'd he answer that?'
We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"
Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.
Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.
Give yourself room to make mistakes because you're human. We've got to make mistakes, and allow ourselves to make those mistakes.
Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.
People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.
My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."
I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "
Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.
I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.
That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.
I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.
It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.
I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot.
I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.
I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat.
Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.
I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.
When I was a young man, I worked at the Boys and Girls Club in St. Louis, Missouri, and another boys club called Matthews-Dickey.
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.
I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.
Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.
The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."
Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
I've found the world's most versatile word - 'cheeky.' The amount of ways you guys can use the word 'cheeky' is quite impressive.
I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.