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You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.
Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.
I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.
No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, 'You're dumb!' over and over. That's not what Broadway's about.
And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.
With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?
If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
Doing a good play on the stage is like eating a good meal at home - assuming your wife is a great cook or that she's hired a great cook.
Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.
I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.
I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.
I don't know how to do anything else and lack any skill that would be applicable on a resume. Drag is what I know. The gigs are my life.
Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
Sometimes you're so nervous about piloting something that you could probably just not empower others to finish what they're supposed to.
I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
I wouldn't say I'm bigger than Jesus. If I had to guess, I'd say probably, yeah, but as far as I know, the bible is never clear on this.
I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.
We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.
The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.
In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.
People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.
There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.
But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'
I remember being in St. Lucia and my dad taking me out on a jet ski. I was very young, too young, but, yup, dad does like to break rules.
I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.
I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.
My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.