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You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.
We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.
The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.
Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.
It's interesting because I'll be out, and someone will say, 'I just loved you on 'Passions'! Did you just quit acting after that?'.
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
My pranks have never been about getting a negative reaction. They've always been a tolerance test for the person I'm engaging with.
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
I drink when I want and how much I want. Sometimes I get in really bad states, but it doesn't cause me or anyone else any problems.
I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.
I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.
There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.
I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it.
Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.
After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.
I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.
I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.
When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.
I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.
New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.
I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.
A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.
That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.
Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.
To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.
Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.