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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
My weak spot is that I don't like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.
I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver.
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
Eight hours of sleep would be amazing. That would be the best. If I could just figure out that part of my life, it would be great.
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
I'm sitting here with the Mets, and I get to throw out the first pitch. That's one of the coolest things in the world for anybody.
There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.
I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.
Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
I know that when I've passed the Jim Nabors set at our studio, I call out 'Hi Gomer,' and I can't honestly think of his real name.
I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?
Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways.
There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww, gross!' But we demand it.
Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.
I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.
I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier.
I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.
I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.
I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.
I don't tend to watch TV. I'm like a Netflix junkie. I watch a lot of documentaries and movies on Netflix. I like 'Downton Abbey.'
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.
I want to be a professional. I want to be like my TV father, Bill Smitrovich. He's an easy, calm actor. I don't want to freak out.
Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.
I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think.
Chris [Evans] sent us a text that The Avengers assemble at such and such bar at 9 on Saturday night. That was a good group effort.
I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.