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If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
If I could choose any car in the world, I'd get a Lamborghini, but I think that's a bit too much money. I'll start off with maybe a V8 or something.
Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.
Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.
My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets.
Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.
When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.
Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.
I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.
I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.
And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.
I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.
What's exciting about Sundance is that they're making a name for themselves in this boutique television niche world, and there's energy behind that.
Trump is Trump. Some people find him hilarious. I don't find it hilarious, but you can't say it's dull. There's nothing credible about Donald Trump.
I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.
I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.
We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?
I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.
I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they're like, "We rewrote this scene, you're now naked." I need a little prep work.
I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they're like, 'We rewrote this scene, you're now naked.' I need a little prep work.
In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and say, 'Oh, you scared me!' I was the good guy in that film!
I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.
I want to remind people that there is no soundtrack in 'Southland;' there is no scored music or soundtrack telling you what you're supposed to feel.
I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.
I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.
There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.
You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.
I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.
I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.
I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.
There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.
I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.
My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.