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Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.
The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.
Why wouldn't I be able to look at you? You're not my woman and I don't even have feelings for you. You really mean nothing to me now.
'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors.
I love 'Friends.' I've seen every one probably 37,000 times, but I can watch 'Friends' all night. You just forget how amazing it was!
Getting expelled from secondary school and going to a more arty-farty college gave me the incentive to perform and opened some doors.
One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.
I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.
I don't have a sence of style in real life. I'm more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don't wear jewelry, I don't wear any of this.
It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.
Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.
In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.
I used to have an afro - like Will Ferrell in 'Semi-Pro.' It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.
I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.
Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.
Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.
It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.
That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.
Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.
I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.
I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.
I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations
I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.
If I cared what people think about my career, I would have not done - just look at my work. Don't look at me; look at what I've done.
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily
People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'
Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.
I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around.
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?