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People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.
I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.
If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It'd be best if we can communicate often.
Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.
That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.
There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.
If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.
If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.
Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and apply them to it.
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.
I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.
I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.
If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.
I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.
I feel strongly about helping fundraise and donating to causes that help children, animals, and the environment. I wish I could do more!
I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.
For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.
I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.
I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.
I feel like comedy is only respected on the highest level, and on every other level, it's like a joke, like, 'Ugh - comedian,' you know?
I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.
I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.
I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.
Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.
You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.
I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they're just good, kind-hearted people.
I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.
I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a kamikaze pilot.
The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.
The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.
I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.
I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.