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Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.
Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.
I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.
The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.
I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.
I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.
As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.
I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.
I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.
Yes, I worked hard to put together an experimental show on a budget of zero. But I was not being exploited by anyone. I was in charge.
At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.
Jessica Rabbit! People wouldn't call her the most beautiful person in Hollywood, but I find her quirkiness and talent very attractive.
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.
I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.
I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.
If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.
I get nervous when I'm sitting in an airplane at 10,000 feet and then the sign comes on: 'Please fasten your seatbelt for turbulence.'
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the job.
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.
It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves.
I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond
If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.
When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.
The next RuPaul is an actor, a singer, a personality, not someone who can just get up at a bar. So I'm looking to do all those things.
All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.
Yeah i thought about making the character of JD gay... But then i thought, but what about all the poor girls dreams you'll be crushing
Have I ever had sex with a hooker? I'd like to answer that question with a question of my own. Can just anyone look up police records?
I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.