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Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.
For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.
You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.
I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.
I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.
I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes.
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.
Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.
I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.
We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.
I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.
I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.
I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.
Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.
That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.
I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.
I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.
My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed in the pop female category.
I’m listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I’m pretty well-versed in the pop female category.
I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.
You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.
Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.
Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.