I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.
The goal is just to try to get better and better, and the only way that makes sense to do that is to work with the best people. Surround yourself with the best artists and learn from them, and try to sink your teeth into the best material possible.
Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.
I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.
I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.
I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
Activism has always been the driving force for change.
If you're Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 911, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues.