If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.
I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
I try to do things I haven't been able to before.
It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.
I like to direct for the big screen.
I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.
Drugs scared me.
They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
As far long-term aspirations, other than acting, I do want to direct a little bit. I want to get on the production side and eventually start a production company and maybe make some projects of my own.
I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.
Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.
I sing and dance. That's my job.
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.
Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.
I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.
I like a girl to wear oversize sweaters that look like my own - it's beyond sexy.
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.
