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I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”
I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.
You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.
Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.
Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.
Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.
I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.
At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.
I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.
When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.
Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.
I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?
Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.
No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.
I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.
Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.
Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.
I have done all kinds of roles, but Tony Montana's role in 'Scarface' is something I would love to play.
I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.
I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.
I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.
Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.
But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.
I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
The only way I knew I was ready to come out was I was being driven crazy by the fact that I was not out.
The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.
I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.