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The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.
All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They're risking their necks.
I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.
I think, as Ive gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.'
I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.
You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music.
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.
I do not resent Sarah Jessica Parker. We've been friends for decades. I just do not like what 'Sex and the City' did to my neighborhood.
Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.
If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.
I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.
Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.
It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.
I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn't care. It didn't mean anything to me.
The goal of Asians in the arts is plurality of roles. I've always been hindered by me over-thinking what is a stereotype and what isn't.
Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.
You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.
I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?
I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.
There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on TV that night or that week.
I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.
From the time I could visually perceive film or TV, I was just enthralled by it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.
A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.
I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.
I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.
My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.
Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.
Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.
As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.
You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself.
There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.
I'm very fortunate now in that I have my first love, which is drama and acting, for a living and I'm also managing to go racing as well.
I wake up in the morning crying, and I'll tell you why. It's because I look at myself in the mirror, and then I say, 'It'll get better.'
I think, at the end of the day, you should just be judged by your work, not on what effect it might have on the world or your community.
You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.
There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.
There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about them, like De Niro, like Gary Oldman.
I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.