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You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.
If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.
When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.
Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!'
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.
General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."
I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.
My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.
I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht.
I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.
I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things.
I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.
I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.
True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject.
Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.
I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.
My dad had a company, and there were various films that hadn't gone into production that I'm trying to nurture.
They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.
When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.
Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.
TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
Never trust second thoughts. Next thing you know there'll be a third and a fourth...you'll be thinking forever!
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
I am quite quiet: I don't feel as though I have to express myself with words too often. Maybe I should do more.
You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.
There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.
The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.
I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'
I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.
When you don't understand something it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.