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The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.
When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.
As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.
Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.
The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.
It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn.
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.
My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.
There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.
Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.
I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.
The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army.
That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.
I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.
The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.
The show is called The Office and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
I'm delighted to be joining the cast of 'The Fall' for what is going to be an exciting and gripping second series.
If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
The Parkour is with me, and it will continue to be with me. It is something that I love, and it's intrinsic to me.
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter what movie he's in.
It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."
People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.