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Evolution is a constant state. You evolve and become comfortable in situations in which you might have felt alien in the past.
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.
I can't actually pinpoint anything that made me want to be an actor - I just did. And then anything after that just fueled it.
I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.
I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?'
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.
When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?
My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.
There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.
I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.
I find women more interesting to watch on a lot of levels, and I like the idea of being involved with something I would watch.
I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.
My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.
Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.
I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.
I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.
If anything changes, I'll just take it in stride. For now, I can still walk down the street and quite happily not get noticed.
It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.
I don't think there's anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own.
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.
Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'
For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, thats the way I want to live my life. It moved me.
I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.
With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.
I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.
I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.
Foreigners have no idea of the diversity of India and its culture. We hope to be able to give them a glimpse of that diversity.
Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.