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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.
I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.
I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.
It was a shock for me to see that there are obviously more people in Germany with fascist opinions than I thought there would be.
I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.
When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.
Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.
There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.
I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'
I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.
In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.
Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.
We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.
I want to have fun. Big Hollywood films can be fun, but you know it's an industry, and if you don't function, they send you home.
I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time.
I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
I was lucky that I had friends who have maintained a very regular attitude with me and haven't changed how they interact with me.
Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.
When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.
I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
My father tried to give me the sex talk once, and he chickened out. He walked into my room and went, 'Adam - uh, don't kiss guys.'
Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.
To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
The fact that you can see a movie at home, it's great. You're making it for as many people to see it as possible. And that's nice.
When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this."
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
Nothing in my life has necessarily been easy, but eventually I see where it's gotten me to, and I say, 'Okay, it's been worth it.'
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.