Alan Quotes

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

Parts win prizes, not actors.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

I love working in New York theater.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far, when I can see them on Netflix. I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands.

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place. Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.

This planet that God created for us to live in is just so breathtakingly beautiful.

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.

Hope is such an important component to moving forward and getting past the difficult times.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

Actors are frightened little children.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.

Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Find out what my Individual Divine and Unique Power IS and offer it outwards in harmony with all life!

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

The closer you get to what's happening in TV now and the ways it's evolving, the more danger you get into.

When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.