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When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.
I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.
I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.
I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.
Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'
I took a sociology class, and I got an A in it. Then I found out you could get an emphasis in criminal justice. I wanted to be an administrator.
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
I don't think it's possible to ruin a relationship because of anything you do. I think it's about whether or not you're supposed to be together.
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at 'SNL.' To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one of her songs from her third album.
The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.
I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.
I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."
I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.
You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.
I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything.
In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!
Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. I think people tend to get the two mixed up.
When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.
Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.
I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.
I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'
I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.
I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something."
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.
For the auditioning process, I love to move my body around, maybe dance a little bit, get myself in a really loose place where I'm free to play.
I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.
That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.
Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car. And I do that when I get onto a plane as well!
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.
It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.
By the time I graduated from high school in Vancouver, I already had a whole support network set up for me in Los Angeles, so I just moved down.
At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.
I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.
You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.
But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.
All I'm going to say is that I worked with Christopher Walken the other day. I can cross him and working with Clint Eastwood off my bucket list!
I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!
I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.
You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
Women do come up to me, and they tell me what they think! I've gotten great compliments on my eyes and my smile. But I don't see myself as sexy.