I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better.
I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'
I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
What can I say? I feel good when I'm wearing heels. I feel sexier, attractive.
I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.
I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.
I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was the first film and the first good thing that I have done.
I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.
