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Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.
I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.
I'd always keep going back to the acting. Once the rent was paid, and the phone bill, the next money you had was for acting classes.
Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.
Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.
It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.
Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?
Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.
I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.
I'm thankful I've learned to embrace insecurity, not just to tolerate it. Life is more fun that way, and I'm thankful for that, too.
Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.
Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they're not small.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.
Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.
I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.
But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.
I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent.
I can’t even take a stroll through a park. As soon as women see my face they start gathering up their children and running for home.
My main goal is to try to make fun for everyone. And to see my fans responding to it and to see them having fun is really rewarding.
Superstars in every era have come from outside the industry, and that will continue to happen because cinema is nobody's birthright.
I am protecting my personal life because for me, that's my sanctity. When I am done with shooting and home, that's my reality check.
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blame films for what is happening in society.
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.
I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.
The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.
I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.
Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.
The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.
I've done a lot of different things in my life. I've parachuted, done some deep-sea diving. Inasmuch as it's safe to do, I can do it.
My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.
We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.