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There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
Othello is someone who's just had a victory, and it's the aftermath of coming back and attempting to live comfortably as a civilian.
I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.
Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.
I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.
Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.
In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'
One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.
If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
Things are never crystal clear, but at some point, they reveal themselves to you. You just hope it happens when you're still on set.
A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.
I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.
I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.
I was the world's smallest man, covered in freckles with a squeaky, scratchy voice. And I still am, but I've learned to love myself.
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment.
People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.
I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.
You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.
Uh, I do not wear a wig in 'Star Trek' like I did in 'Bottle Shock,' thank God. 'Bottle Shock' will be the last wig movie I ever do.
When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.
As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.
I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.