With young people, it’s how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it’s about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don’t have to play it – it’s just gotta be there, and if the story’s good and the script’s good,...

My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

There’s a way you have to play the quarterback position in the NFL. Maybe I’m a little bit old school, but I think you have to play the game in the pocket with consistency.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and – and this is the key bit of the argument – which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

I’d like to be able to light the fire a little bit.

It’s just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

I won’t be in gay parades – I don’t think they need them. I believe in class – I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

My top styling tips for brides are, first and foremost, to be careful not to go overboard with makeup. The goal is to look like yourself, just a bit enhanced!

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

I’d really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.

Someone gives jewelry, and there’s a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I’m making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit – and even a bit lower than that.

At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn’t want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we...

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Some men think that if you’re empowered and sure of yourself then you’re a man-hater, but it’s like, ‘No, I’m just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.’

I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it’s ‘Transformers 2’ or ‘Shrek 5’, or it’s yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It’s a bit depressing in a way.

I’m a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

Sometimes you’ve just got to grab an apple – or grapes, or strawberries. Something that’s healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character’s come from or where they grew up – you would just get a little bit laughed at.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

As a comedian, you’re kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

I’m Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I’m a bit quirkier than that.

One thing I’d like to do is angel investing in small companies. That’s what’s exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

That’s me. I can be me a bit at home, but I’m kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and ‘The Passion’ reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

While I’ve never ‘phoned in’ a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

I’m always polite in auditions, but I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, please give me the job,’ for ‘Robin Hood’ because I didn’t think I’d get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you’re half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

How does anybody change from the time that they’re 18 till they’re 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

There was a writer in the ’20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn’t tell you what it was.