At around 19 I realized that I really didn’t have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
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It’s a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.
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It was videotaped, and I’m sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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You kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.
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I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on Episodes.
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And then you’ll consume them however you can. For example, I don’t really watch Showtime, but I bought ‘Homeland,’ and I’ve been watching every episode on my iPad.
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Well, you can’t improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I’m only going to have to run.
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Anytime I audition for something, it’s always a question of whether or not the people I’m auditioning for understand I’m an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who’s going to do what’s written.
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I love Obama. He’s my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.
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Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.
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My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong.
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There was a reason in the ’50s when communism was bubbling that there were a million zombie movies. Because that is the direct allocation.
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Eventually I got the call for ‘Iron Man,’ and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room
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I don’t think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn’t an actor who can just do one thing.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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