I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.
I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.
Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
