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I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.
I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.
Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.
I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.
If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.
I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.
In many respects Angie saved Zahara's life and there are so many more children whose lives she could save and she talks about that constantly.
I understand why a lot of women want to dress hipster. But I grew up sneaking my mom's Victoria's Secrets...so I could look at the hot chicks!
The very things in your life that seem to be depressing and oppressing you right now are going to be the means by which you set yourself free.
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
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.
My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.
If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!
Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.
When you were kids, you can tell when an adult is bad or good; and I think people can feel that I'm genuine. It's the best thing in the world.
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.
Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.
I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.
When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.
Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.
Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.
I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.
The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.
I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.
When I saw 'My Fair Lady,' I was surprised at how mean and misogynistic Henry was. Maybe that's why it's dropping out of public consciousness.
What's impressed me about 'Star Trek' fans is how many generations they span and how many nations they represent. They are all over the place.
When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.
Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.
I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.
It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.
I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.
You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.
I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.
I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.
You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.
On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'
I suppose we all have a lil' inner or outer a-hole inside of us, just waiting for the right opportunity to rear their own beautiful buttholes.