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Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.
I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.
The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.
I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in....I love you
I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.
Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy.
Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.
The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.
My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.
I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.
It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
As far as 'Final Destination' and its creator, Jeffrey Reddick, are concerned, whenever Jeffrey calls, because of our friendship, I have to listen.
I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.
I've got Aussie country pride for sure. I just like where I grew up. I think you've got lots in common with the people who grew up the same as you.
People often say to me, especially people from the press: 'Oh, you are so evil.' But I'm a gardener. I rescue animals in Palm Springs where I live.
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.
I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn't know whether to go back.
Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.
If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.
You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.
I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.
People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.
You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.
If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.
You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.
The greatest joy in getting ready for the film is that there aren't many reference points for the journey and you've got to define it for yourself.
Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.
If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.