Actor Quotes

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here.

'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.

'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction.

I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.