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My heritage is Pakistani, and I have loads of Pakistani fans on social media who I would love to connect with.
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.
I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.
For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.
I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.
I prefer not to discuss politics for one reason: I'm absolutely sure that I understand nothing about politics.
It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.
Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.
I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.
I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.
Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.
A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.
No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.
It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.
I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.
The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.
Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!
Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.
Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'
When I met my wife, I was 24. Obviously, she wasn't my wife. She was just a girl. I made her my wife later on.
Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.
Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
I put my best foot forward to make the best impression I could have, and it's been serving me well ever since.
Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a business that we love.
I think girls are surprised when you actually really listen and then you call it back at the end of the night.
When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.
I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.
I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.
If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.
Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.
There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.
As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are private matters.
I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.
I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.