Doing Quotes

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

I think I must have too much to eat, we were doing a scene where we were crawling, and I ripped my trousers. I was very embarrassed. I was sown in, stitched in, quickly!

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.