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I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.
You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.
Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.
I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.
Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.
Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.
I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.
There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.
My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.
You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
I still feel that the original 'Karate Kid' is the great piece of work that has stood the test of time. It's a bit of soulful magic.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license.
The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.
I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.
If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.
I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.
I don't mind it so much if I get type cast as an authority figure. I get to do comedy no matter what it is, so it doesn't bother me.
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.
Nothing gets my journalistic juices flowing more than a seaside chalet, the mention of a private jet, or room service in St. Tropez.
I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.
I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.
One of the first guys I ever played golf with was Samuel L. Jackson. We did a movie many years ago and would play whenever we could.
We go out of fashion but can also come back into fashion. So you've just got to hang around long enough until you are back in style.
The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.
I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.
For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.