During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter...
A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.
I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.
I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.
I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.
It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the Europea...
It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?
I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.
I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've b...
I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
Honestly, I'm blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline - I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I'm full.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
