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I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.
I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop
Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious way. Not in a patronizing way.
The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.
I love chocolates. It could be something as simple as a chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream, or it could be macarons filled with chocolate.
I like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.'
If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.
The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.
The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.
It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.
Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material.
I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.
I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.
I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.
I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.
I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.
I wish I am born again as Dev Anand, and people will see a young star 25 years later. That will give me some time to finish what I want to do.
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.
Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
As professional actors, it's our job to entertain our audiences while setting benchmarks for ourselves as well, creatively and intellectually.
I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
Everybody has their own problems. No matter how big you think yours are, there is someone else that has bigger problems or different problems.
As far as exercise, I play a lot of lacrosse and rugby, and I'm an avid distance swimmer. Nope, none of that is true. I do walk a lot, though.
Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.
We should work towards a legislation to sack non-performing politicians. This may not happen during my lifetime, but I will try for it anyway.
I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.
I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I'm obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me.
I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.
I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.
I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.
So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.
Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!
I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.