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I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.
There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.
I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.
I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.
My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!
Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.
The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.
I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.
But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.
I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes.
In Louisiana, President Bush met with over 15,000 National Guard troops. Here's the weird part, nobody remembers seeing him there.
I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
I learned so much on 'Sicario' and working with that group of actors, where there was the audacity, the confidence, to do nothing.
What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.
At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh.
I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.
No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.
I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.
I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.
It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.
It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you.
Has anybody seen 'The Notebook' and not cried? I don't know, I don't know if that's the case. It sort of hangs around for a while.
I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.
It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.
We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.
I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.