Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

Midwestern people have the most judgmental assholes ever. I'm sorry, but it's true.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

Being attractive in life is not something as static as a single frame in a picture.

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I spent a couple of months just riding a bike doing my own training in the streets.

I didn't care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

I'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range.

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.

I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV.

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

I don't believe there is any finer mission on earth than just to make people laugh.

I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.

It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

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