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I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.
Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.
I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.
People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.
I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.
My favorite days are at home. Spend some time in the garden, cook a couple of nice meals, watch a couple of movies. I'm pretty boring.
Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.
Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.
I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.
I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.
I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.
I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.
I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.
I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.
Working together always works together better... it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures.
I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role.
Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.
I have three kids. I was blessed with very supportive parents and some close friends, and the people closest to me are my inspiration.
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.
Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
I love that sort of 1930s and 1940s; I love that period - the thought of it. And I like war movies and all that kind of stuff as well.
Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.
After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.
I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.
Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.
There's this cornucopia of potential, and it can't be realized until someone works their ass off for it. Even on a Nickelodeon sitcom.
For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
'Harry Potter' is very nice because it's very easy to make children happy. All you have to do is have your photograph taken with them.
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.
I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.
If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.
To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."
A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.