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The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.
I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.
I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.
There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.
I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.
My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.
I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.
I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.
A lot of times, working in stand up, youre by yourself ,and so you just have to rely on yourself only but I like working in an ensemble.
If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.
Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.
The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
I always prefer shooting on locations, because when I'm at home, it's harder to sort of get lost in the world of whatever you're making.
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] - that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star - that's very gratifying.
I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.
Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.
For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.
The biggest problem about looking at a problem is looking at it. When we finally find or face it, it becomes harmless and easy to solve.
I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.
I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.
Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.
Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.
I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on 'Boardwalk Empire.'
You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.
IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.