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You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.
Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.
Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.
After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.
I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
The Italian tough guys, dey talk real deep like dis down in dere chests... while the Irish speak way high-ah, up here in their heads.
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.
If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.
I always try to pick my parts to be as diverse as I can, and especially when you do 'Game of Thrones' for so many months of the year.
Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.
. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!
I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.
Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.
I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.
I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.
I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.
At home, I am a private person, and I like keeping it that way. Maybe that is why I come out as being guarded about my personal life.
I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.
A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.
I got rid of my Instagram and had a flip phone for two years. I only started one after a friend told me someone was impersonating me.
I'm most active on Instagram, then Twitter, and then Facebook. I haven't opened up Snapchat for the public; it's only for my friends.
What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.
Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.
One shouldn't get carried away by styling, as it can be a double-edged sword. The person should have it in him or her to carry it off.
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on
Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.