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One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!
If you look back to a picture of me when I was 12 years old, you will probably see me in a leather jacket trying to look like Elvis!
The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.
I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.
I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing.
I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do.
I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.
Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.
I wrestled my guys growing up. I've wrestled with Hulk Hogan. I've wrestled against Shawn Michaels. I've wrestled against Ric Flair.
Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does.
It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize.
There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.
It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.
It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
Bad boys are classy and refined. For example, even though Donald Trump came from money and a privileged lifestyle, he's a man's man.
The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?
Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.
Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.
Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you!
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.
The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.
I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.
Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
There's all these summer blockbusters out there, but nobody's talking about them... they're talking about 'Sharknado.' It's amazing!
My mom was always so supportive; she enabled me to pursue my dreams. I danced on Broadway as a kid, and she would never miss a show.
I feel blessed: having a family is something that I've always wanted. Having a second child is the realization of a dream come true.
I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.
I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.