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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?
People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.
For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.
I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even.
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people.
I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.
Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.
I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.
I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.
Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.
I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.
One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.
That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
Being married, I don't know how to describe it. It's very comfortable when you find the right person. It all comes together beautifully.
You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.
I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.
I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.
I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes you realize how very precious life is.
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.
I miss 'Mad Men,' but I can't complain because I got a lot of public awareness from it, and it led on to film offers such as 'Sherlock.'
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.
Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy.
Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.
For 'Conan,' I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.
I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.