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The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.
Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.
I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.
I started to run marathons and got into road biking in Los Angeles. It was a lot of fun and I managed to get into the shape of my life.
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.
I was told one time never to go longer than an hour in an interview because you reveal yourself too much, but I never follow that rule.
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.
My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.
I'm the gypsy man. I don't really live anywhere. I've got a roof over my head in Los Angeles, and I've got a lot of friends everywhere.
I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'
I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.
I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.
I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.
I have an amazing metabolism. I'm sure that'll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don't think I'll ever get really fat.
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.
America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.
Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.
If you ask anybody what they think of clowns, it's associated as much or more with something crazy and scary as it is something joyful.
You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I am - I would just blend in.
I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.
Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the world.
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.
My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I don't know.
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.