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It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.
I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
The reality is, I'm not 24 or 34 anymore. Things are going to be different when I prepare for and when I compete in an athletic endeavor.
No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.
The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'
We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.
Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.
Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.
Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.
It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.
I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.
All I do is I have this insulated life with my wife and my daughter and a couple of friends who I try to see, but it doesn't even happen.
Occasionally I'll have a slip, and I might watch 'RuPaul's Drag Race' or something. But for the most part, I am out on the reality shows.
Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.
I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.
I auditioned for a Pepsi commercial, and I got it, and that was incredibly fun. So I thought, Well, maybe I should try this acting thing.
Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
People may have said, "The dude's gay; how are we going to market this?" But it's not an issue for me, because being out is very freeing.
Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.
I wanted to communicate how important it is to love on the people that are in our lives and to take every day with someone as a blessing.
Down syndrome kids can learn. Like Corky. That's the way I feel about it... For those kids who have Down syndrome, to give them a chance.
Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better
I've said some things on stage where the crowd was like, 'Whoa, that's bad' - and I never say it again because that's the feedback I get.
I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.
I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.