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Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.
I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.
It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.
Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.
I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.
I cant sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. Im shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.
I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.
It makes the day considerably more enjoyable when you're working with people you think are good, and it makes your job easier, too.
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.
I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.
Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.
The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.
I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.
When 'Party of Five' ended I believed we had run our course. I believed the basic ideal and premise of the show had been fulfilled.
I'm a comedian in real life. I always goof around; I'm out-going; and I talk with everybody, especially through Twitter these days!
It's a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying.
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.
I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.
My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.
To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.
The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'
As a father of two black sons now, you ask yourself, 'What do I have to do to assure the safety of these boys?' It can be daunting.
I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.
When I was in court I was the judge; when I was out of court I wasn't. Most people didn't address me as judge when I was in public.
So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.
I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.
I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
I change my training probably every two months. The only thing that stays consistent is that I've become a pretty psychotic runner.
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it.
I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.
A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.
I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.