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I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.
New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.
I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.
Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.
Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.
The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.
Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
'Smallville' gig was another one of those things I got through WWE. At that point, I had absolutely no aspirations to pursue acting.
I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.
I've known Daryl Hannah for 20 years. She's kind of a friend of the family. Anyway, I've been hot for her ever since 'Blade Runner.'
It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.
You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
That is sort of the backbone for 'Star-ving.' People just assumed that I am completely loaded. I do all right. I have to be careful.
I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.
Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.
When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.
After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.
I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.
My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine how do you do!
What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.
'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.
The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.
The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.
My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goof gene is very strong inside me, really.
I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.
I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.
Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.
I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.