I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.
I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.
I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.
I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
I can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.
My creative workday starts with strong breakfast tea and a few minutes of journaling, both of which help me get my head in the story. So much of story-building for me involves immersing myself in the character and situation I'll be working on, just the way an actor does when playing a role.
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
I'm going to put a lot of expectations on myself.
I don't really think of myself as an actor.
I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
I call myself a geriatric starlet.
I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.
I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.
For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.
Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna get myself on the team.' It has always been my dream.
I don't consider myself a star.
I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.
Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing - I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger?
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
