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Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?
My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.
If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.
Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.
My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.
I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.
I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.
I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.
I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.
I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.
Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.
The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.
It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.
If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.
Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.
I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy.
I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.
Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.
I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.
Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.
I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.
I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.
You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'
Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.
I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
My hobbies have varied over the years. There were a whole set of new ones before I got married. Now I spend as much time with my wife, who is my best friend.
I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have.
If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.
I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.
I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.
Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.
I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.
I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.