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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
There's all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy's one of those few things where you can discuss those things.
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.
I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'
It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.
Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works.
The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and charming.
The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team. All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless
I tried making an album six years ago. It was just horrific. Trust me, it's smashed into smithereens. I paid big money to silence that one.
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.
I never thought I'd end up living in Los Angeles while my children grew up in Britain, but here I am, and we are all making the best of it.
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
When I look at young kids today I just don't believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they're suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.
Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!
One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.
You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
I met my wife; she barely owned a television and worked for Save the Children. We sat down one night, and we fell in love, and that was it.
You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.
It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.
Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit... they look innocent, and boy, do they pack a punch.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'
I'm actually just a terrible husband and a terrific exec producer. We just actually stay together for our careers. We look to the Clintons.
I'm an early riser. I work out really hard. I push myself; I get my job done, and at the end of the day, there's a Guinness waiting for me.
I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.
Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.
I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.
The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth fighting about jokes.
Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.
When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.
I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.
When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.