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I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.
I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.
We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines
Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.
You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.
You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home run for you without a script.
With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.
For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
'Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a lot of formal acting training.
I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of.
I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.
You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.
Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.
The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer
The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States
I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go.
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.
The fact that I had a gay agent was good because he could say: 'Honey, you've got an audition today. Keep your feet on the ground, O.K.?'
I had an awful experience where I went to the U.K. and did reality. I can't even get into it - it was called 'Celebrity Big Brother U.K.'
Today, in my career, I'm doing what I love to do. And that is, do things for the fun - do comedy. It's a pleasure to go for the laughter.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Pretty good, you know its nice when you get people coming up to you saying Can I have a photo or an autograph; its a compliment, I think.
It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
I want to do drama - no one really sees that. People just think I'm the funny guy and I can't do anything else, and that's just not true.
I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.
I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.
We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?
To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.
Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.