I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'
Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.
For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.
Ian Curtis: [handing Tony Wilson a piece of paper] Joy Division, you cunt!
Tony: Nothing like piling on old pancakes and syrup after a night of beer drinking.
Pickford: [mockingly, to Mike and Tony] Woodward, Bernstein. Mike: Guess that makes you Deep Throat.
[repeated line] Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Will that be all, Mr. Stark? Tony Stark: Yes, that will be all, Miss. Potts.
Tony Stark: I think you got a lot of my weapons.
Tony Montana: NOW you're talking to me, Baby. Elvira: Don't call me "Baby". I'm not your "Baby".
