I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
I've had people come up to me after the show and say, 'Why did you not make fun of Pakistan?' People are actually upset you didn't talk about them.
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.
We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'
You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you're done, you know?
You need a GoPro camera and some fun mounts to capture the chaos.
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.
There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.
You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.
I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.
Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.
You won't find any volatile quotes out in the press where I've run the team down publicly.
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it.
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.
Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.
