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I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.
When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting.
Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.
I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'
We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.
I've done so much drama on television that it's very hard to sit down and watch other actors work. I find my interest is more in the real world.
The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.
It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.
My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.
I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.
What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.
I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.
In this ridiculously polarized, obstructionist world, the operating principle should be, Let's get something done. Not, Let's freeze everything.
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.
I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.
I do look forward to doing things in the future that I havent done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!
Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.
I really want to do something where I can show my physicality - something with a lot of action. Action would be fun. I'd really like to do that.
People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...
If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.
Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.
What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.
If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.
Usually writers are behind the scenes. Like a lot of people don't know that the cat who created Final Destination is a brother, Jeffrey Reddick.
In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.
I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.
If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.
Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.
'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.
Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.
I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.
When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.
A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.
I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.
See, it's kind of like James Bond. There's a new James Bond every couple of years. Maybe I can do the new 'MacGyver' and put my own twist on it.
Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within one night, you know.