Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater - more theater than anything else - and when I was doing films, that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things. ”

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week. ”

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health. ”

I started out in the theater when I was a young actor, so I've always tried to move from one medium to the other. ”

I feel like I'm going to be with the Cowboys the rest of my career, definitely. I love it. ”

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars. ”

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way. ”

My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job. ”

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull. ”

Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life - theatre was still a posh thing, a middle-class thing, something for an elite. ”