I love 'Into The Woods.' I auditioned for a couple of productions since being in it at school but haven't been successful.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.

I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

Once in a while, I need to go out of my way to do different films, to exploit all commercial angles to cater to the masses.

People should try and look for something that constantly keeps them motivated, and they start enjoying what they are doing.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.

I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't.

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

I had a good time doing ["The Congressman"], and I hope that Treat [Williams] and I plan to go flying in his [private] jet!

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

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