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I remember being scared to death of horror movies as a kid. Sometimes, I missed the whole movie because I was so scared and couldn't look.
I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.
I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.
It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
Oh, I've been ridiculously lucky to work for, I'd say, five of the greatest directors of all time... and a lot of other great people, too.
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
I think you can only be outgoing when the person you're talking to is outgoing. I can be outgoing if I want to be, if you meet me halfway.
I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.
I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.
I drove from L.A. to the bottom of Florida on Vespas, and I drove cross country multiple times in a car. I've done a lot of road tripping.
But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.
Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.
Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.
Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.
My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.
President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.
After two years with 'Donna,' they offered me a new contract, but I said no. I didn't want to be the fourth man through the door any more.
Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.
Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.
When I first was able to fill in A-C-T-O-R for the occupation line on my passport, that was the first time I really felt, 'Wow, I'm home.'
I mean, I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.
I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.
I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.
I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.
I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.
I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was Detroit Rock City. I heard it in the school library, where I lived.
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.
Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.
I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!
If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.
Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.
Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.