I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.
Saya menemukan saya tidak mengajukan pertanyaan yang cukup baik karena saya berasumsi saya tahu sesuatu. Saya akan mengotak-kotakkannya ke sudut dengan pertanyaan yang dibentuk dengan buruk, dan mereka tidak tahu bagaimana cara keluar dari situ. Sekarang, saya membiarkan mereka membawa saya melewatinya selangkah demi selangkah, dan saya mendengarkan.
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
Hubungan saya dengan sains adalah sebagai seseorang yang ingin tahu dan lapar untuk tahu, lapar untuk mengerti. Jadi yang saya tawarkan hanyalah ketidaktahuan dan keingintahuan saya, yang merupakan kombinasi yang baik, selama keduanya bersatu.
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Itu membuatnya menyenangkan. Ketika seorang aktor memerankan sebuah karakter, Anda menginginkan apa yang diinginkan oleh karakter tersebut. Kalau tidak, itu tidak terlihat asli. Jadi saya sangat ingin mengalahkan Jimmy - maksud saya Jimmy sebagai karakternya.
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?