Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.
I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.
I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.
You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood.
It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
You've got to give more than you take.
If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.
I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.
The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.
I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.
