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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
'Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.
What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.
Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'
It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive
I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.
With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.
The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.
The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.
I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.
I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.
On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.
Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.
I needed to have a journey of my own to tell my son tomorrow. To even discuss my journey with my family, I have to set an example.
If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you.
I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.
Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to get married. I think because of the way I was brought up and seeing my parents in love.
What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.
Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.
You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.
Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.