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The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.
There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.
I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.
I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.
I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?
The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.
You know that genie where you get three wishes? One that has never changed for me is I would like to sing, and move an audience through song.
I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good.
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
As an actor, I get my insurance from the Screen Actor's Guild by union, and you have to make so much every year to get that type 1 insurance.
A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.
You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.
I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.
I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.
I went to the Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm like, "These guys are Olympians now." There's no place for a Walter Matthau in a movie anymore.
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.
Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.
In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.
Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.
As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.
I never had a thing for movie stars. I was into the guys who could transform. Sean Penn. Daniel Day-Lewis. The ones who privileged the craft.
You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.
As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much.
I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.
Whenever I wake up, I'm up. I don't lie there like an idiot. I get up, run up a hill, get some exercise, and have some time with my thoughts.
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
With 'The Expendables,' you have such a brilliant mess of the greatest action stars of all time, so you're in for the ride with those people.
The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.
Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.
When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.
I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.
I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.
Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.
I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
I think shows being sent out this way - pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and the U.K. and Germany, it's very cool.
As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.
One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.
I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.
I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not.
'House' has opened a lot of doors for me. I've met a whole bunch of people and got a whole new bunch of contacts. I've got the golden ticket.