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I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.
For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.
Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.
A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg again - I don't know what the odds are.
One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.
I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.
TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.
I'm hoping that, over the years, people will come back to 'MADtv' and think it isn't that bad. We had some really talented people on there.
Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.
I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.
You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.
If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.
I make character judgements based on whether people like animals. Worship Satan, I'll still give you a chance. Hate dogs, we ain't friends.
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?
A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.
I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a special place in my heart.
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.
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.
You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.
The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.
I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
My life has changed in almost every way but I couldn’t be more grateful. I couldn’t be happier - I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.
There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'
Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent.
This is so weird. I saw the new John Kerry campaign commercial and he says, 'I'm John Kerry and I approve of this message - if I have one.'
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.
The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
I've lived in Hawaii long enough now where people don't make a big deal about me being there; I'm just a part of the community, thankfully.