When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.
People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.
I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
I think I figured out why I don't have more friends. I find dead people more interesting than the living.
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
Just go with it', he thought. 'You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear'.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle.
I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s.
