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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious.
I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music
I had such a broad array of classes, in improvising, in clowning, in Shakespeare. It was so great to just be inundated with all that.
I'd love to be a part of 'Star Wars.' I'd be a Sith, of course - I'm English! We've got the voice, and it's perfect for the bad guys.
I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.
It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.
Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to BE another person and create what it would be like to be that person.
I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.
I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.
It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going.
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.
I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.
'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.
When I was young kid, I used to watch Jack Benny, and I thought the minimal aspect of what he did was revelatory. I loved Jack Benny.
There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.
There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.
That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.
America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.
When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.
I know I'm honest and dependable, usually. I know I'm always dependable for my wife. I'm always at home and I'm always there to help.
I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.
I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!
I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.
Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking.
Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.
The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself.
I don't go out - ever. I'm lucky enough to have awesome friends, and we always end up at someone's house. We're big house-party guys.
It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.
I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.
You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."
There's an actor in the TV show 'Prison Break,' Robert Knepper, who plays a violent sociopath, and he's just incredible in that role.
I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.