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If I get the walk of a character, that helps me find them. So I'm constantly looking at airports and train stations, registering walks.
It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.
I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.
I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
I'm not into dragon chasing - trying to become Bradley Cooper. I want to be a New York actor. I want to plant a flag in this community.
We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.
You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through.
Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.
The easiest way to win the competition for eyeballs in the digital age is to broadcast bad behavior. People like watching train wrecks.
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.
I grew up on video games. When I was in college, even during snowstorms, I would go the half-mile to the drugstore to play 'Millipede.'
Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.
People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.
I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.
Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good show, it is a lot more enjoyable.
If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.
I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog: They all write, which is much better because it's their baby, and they know what they want.
Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.
There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond.
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on.
One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.
All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.
Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't affect the conversations I have in my head about life, and worries and fears and insecurities.
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!
North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.