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I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.
This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I've ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah.
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.
I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.
Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes.
I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.
I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.
I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.
We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.
Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.
If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.
Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.
I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.
I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.
The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.
I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.
I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.
When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.
No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.
Well, I wasn't a big Chick-fil-A fan, I guess, I never really knew about them because I'm from Philly and they don't have them there.
Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.
A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.
I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.
I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.
I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.