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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.
Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend.
I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.
You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.
Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.
What I am trying to do right now is simply focus on what is happening right now. Obviously, I would hope there are future opportunities.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.
If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.
The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.
You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.
The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.
I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.
That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.
I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.
My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage.
I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.
No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.
I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.
As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?
I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.
You know what they say: You go on the road and you're out of the business. Out of sight, out of mind. I can't afford that sort of thing.
I mean I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.
I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it.
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
Nerd rage to me is kind of just empty rage. I mean, ultimately, you're not going to do it; you're not going to fight somebody, you know.
All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.
The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.