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I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
I want to find my own rhythm and style. That's probably the harder way to approach it, but I think it will pay off in the long run.
I like horror and sci-fi almost equally, but I watch more sci-fi than horror. Does that mean I like sci-fi more than horror? Maybe.
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.
The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.
I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.
Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.
Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.
I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.
I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.
I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.
Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
I miss the New York bagel but miss the New York bialy even more. It's a great compromise of bagel feeling with less dough stuffing.
There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.
We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.
The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.
The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.
If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.
I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.
Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.
Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn't reveal itself, but it distorts everything.
Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.
I have a thing that I do when I meet famous people, where I try to play it really cool. Sometimes I pretend like I don't know them.
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.
Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".
I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'
I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.
I don't want people to hate me. I basically do whatever I want. But one of the aspects of what I want is, I want people to like me!
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.
Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!