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When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
I'm just happy to be doing what I always wanted to do. Sometimes you have to remind yourself how privileged you are.
160 million-plus people call themselves Christians. They go to church once a month at least. That's a lot of people.
The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.
I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.
I'm always trying to play pranks on people and doing silliness, singing extremely badly and extremely loudly on set.
I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.
I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.
'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.
I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.
A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.
If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.
I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.
I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
Wardrobe is - in films, I could say it's a good half of the acting. You get the right rags on, they'll talk for you.
Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.
I have had my share of heartbreaks...Though I'm single and my career has taken prescedence, I'm ready to mingle now.
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.
I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.
I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.
I have never restricted myself to my strengths and abilities, as they are unlimited, and I am still discovering them.
The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.
To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.
When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.
Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.
I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.