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Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
I think Carmen Christopher is going to be massively huge. He's just too funny. He's got funny in his bones, and he wants to conquer every room.
You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.
When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.
I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.
People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.
You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.
I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.
You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.
With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.
When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about knowing the size of the room.
The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.
A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on.
I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talked like, it was always from the wrong place.
It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar.
I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.
You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours, what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?
People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.
There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.
To be honest, I really enjoy the chance to meet the fans because I've found with 'The Hobbit,' the fans are all really lovely and enthusiastic.
I've been in scenes with my brother where I've been absolutely emotionally terrified to go somewhere. But because he's my brother, I feel safe.
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.
In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.
In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.
I feel like guys don't think it's cool to use emojis. I'm like, that's so whack. Emojis help so much. They really do give context to something.
I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.
We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.