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When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.
I just have to say no to some of the stunts that I love doing so much. I enjoy doing that stuff, but I've learned to let the stuntmen do those.
Although I dont know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.
I love doing both theater and television. I definitely foresee more Broadway, but I think I would like to keep the singing and the TV separate.
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
If I played Bond, my dad probably wouldn't know what to do with himself. He'd probably put his shoes on the wrong way for the rest of his life!
It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.
I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.
Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.
You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.
I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.
If Jimmy Kimmel didn't hire me, I wouldn't have the kind of career I have. And I don't know what kind of career I have, but he changed my life.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
'Dinner' is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than standup.
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.
I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.
I am a huge fan of 'Batman'. As a kid watching it, there are certain things that I'm not going to latch onto as much as when I've gotten older.
As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.
The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.
When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.
I've done so many movies that are bad, with material that's so shallow, that you instantly scratch the surface, and there's nothing underneath.
I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.
George Murphy tagged that name 'Butch' on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.
I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.
In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.
I get one shot at life, and I can say that I've lived a crazy one, and I've pushed the limit almost at every turn, and I'm super proud of that.
To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!