Opportunities? I make opportunities.
I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.
I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of. . . Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.
Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era. . . . But he came out of it and made something that mattered.
Make 2012 the year that you were nice. . because people don't like not nice people. . so be nice. . all the time!