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Everybody wants to have their 'Breaking Bad.' It went to Bryan Cranston. It couldn't have happened to a better guy or a better actor.
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.
When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.
Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.
In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor.
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.
On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.
I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.
New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies, too.
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it`s as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.
I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.
Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.
It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I was like, "You're not meeting me, I'm meeting you."
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'
I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
Anytime I talk about my wife, I want to make it, like, 'the battle-ax,' and I always do that bit, but it's not true. She's a very positive person.
Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.