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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
I am starting to get into this whole idea of caring about what I wear. There was a time in my life when I could not care less about fashion.
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.
Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.
There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.
I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].
I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.
I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.
I don't know how you do it [working at office]; I would just get up and walk out. That's what I did for pretty much every job I've ever had.
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.
Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
Barton is a pretty brass tacks kind of guy. Kinda get the job done so I can go home. So I don't think it's very difficult for him to decide.
I don't watch the movies I've been in. I try to stay as little aware of the final product as possible, because my job doesn't really change.
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.
A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.
What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original.
It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.
The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.
I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
To me, it seems like both 'Brief Interviews' and 'The Office' deal with characters that see themselves differently than the world sees them.
'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.
I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.
You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.
Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.
I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.