In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.
I don’t use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn’t have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.
People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It’s about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That’s the difference.
The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.
Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as ’the show.
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.
I’m pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I’m doing something constructive.
It’s always difficult when you’re on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.
I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there’s something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that’s also liberating.
I’ve seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn’t understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.
For an actor working in television or film, I think it’s important to understand how the medium works – how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.
I’ve always been a shy person.
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don’t think it’s arrogance but a certain authenticity.
In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.
My kids think I’m old and over the hill.