What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet.

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.

I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work.

I thought, 'If I make 35, it'll be okay,' and then at 40, I got scared, and now that I'm 81, I'm scared to death.

Let me clear it once and for all: I was never offered 'Befikre.' But had I been offered, I wouldn't have done it.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen.

My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours - from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. - to my personal fitness.

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

My dad told me when I was very young, that I should not get married before 30. His only advice to me was to live my life.

I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that's not what I want.

I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

Given a chance, I would love to romance Tabu. I wouldn't mind doing a film with Manisha Koirala, either. Or Madhuri Dixit.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.

Four days a week, I do gymming, four days marital arts. Once a week I normally play lawn tennis, and once a week I horseride.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained.

The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it.

Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.

A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

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