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I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.
The older I get, the less I remember.
People are not going to like everything.
I like to think I'm some savage realist.
I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.
I love Twitter; I'm on Twitter quite a lot.
I'm usually up at 6 A.M., even on the weekend.
God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.
I am a hard house freak and I don't care who knows.
It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.
I'd like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.
I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.
I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.
I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.
I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.
I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.
As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.
The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.
If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.
It's a very special thing when you go and get to work with your best friend every day.
The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.
I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.
I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.
I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.
I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?
Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process.
There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.
Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.
I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite... you know... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.
I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.
People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.
I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise.
I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.
And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.
I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.
In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.
I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.
My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we try this?," a few days before, that's usually a better way of doing it then on the day.
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.
Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.
People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life.
I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.
One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second Lord of the Rings film and having Gandalf in it. Why? He died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell 1000 more seats? It's daft.
One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft.
When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much.
My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.