L.A. Paul Quotes

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

Running a business without marketing will kill it.

Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.

I don't think [Russell T Davies] sits up at night worrying about canonicity, except for the times when I'm pretty sure he does.

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

I am a little god! Critics, be gone!

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

If you can imagine missing feeling sad, it's the only thing worse than pain.

Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been told before, because it hasn't.

If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.

Love is the most universal experience. There is nothing more important than love, there is nothing more meaningful than love, and there is nothing more human in people's relationships than love.

Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

I feel like having something that you're passionate about helps to keep you young.

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.

[Swiss Armi Man] was a super joyful film to go make. I mean, there was stuff that was, like, totally bananas. But it was kind of par for the course every day with that stuff.

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

I was actually thinking about starting like an app where you can watch videos of me carrying Daniel [Radcliffe in Swiss Army Man].

I love that it's such an uncynical film [Swiss Army Man]. I think it's got a lot of love in there, and I think that's a nice thing in this day and age.

I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

This is so lame to say in a magazine, but I just grabbed some pink wallpaper. I find it to be a very relaxing color.

Sometimes it's summer camp on location. So it's nice to have a little New York community of people you love.

As your career progresses, you hope that you get some more opportunity, or some more choice.

Michael Caine is so happy. Happy and healthy. I think he enjoys life. I think he's 82 now, and I have no clue if I'll be working at that age.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

I think it was a lot of trust as well [between me and Daniel Radcliffe]. If we didn't have that, it could be a very painful film [ Swiss Army Man] to go make.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.