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I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.
Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.
Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’
I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don't know about.
If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.
When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.
I know there are many things California can offer - personally, professionally, meteorologically - that New York can't. It sounds awesome.
You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do
Action films unfortunately don't let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don't have much time to create something indelible or unique.
The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.
Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.
What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.
I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.
I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
Apparently, Agent Coulson is a representative or an avatar of all the geeks. And there is so much love for Coulson and fan art of Coulson.
While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.
When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.
I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.
I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy!
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.
You do your own stunts as an actor, and you end up getting hurt. It's not your job. You've got stunt guys. Stunt guys make a lot of money.
It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.
I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I wouldn't do.
Bill Murray I always liked. I'm not as good as him, but there's a quality in him that I like. And then there's DeNiro, I'll never be that.
My grandfather was a commander in the Navy. He was very proud of his service, and he lived his entire life as though he was still serving.
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.
If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.
I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.