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You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.
Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.
I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.
We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.
Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.
The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?
I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.
When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.
I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.
I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.
I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.
if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.
I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.
What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.
On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.
It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.
I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.
Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.
An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant.
There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!
The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.
For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?
Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.