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People
People that I either admired, obsessed over or simply loved throughout the year.
Heath Ledger
"I'm the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean, you're being judged and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes me.
I can't relax, I'm tied in knots, so the voice is very taut and tense.
You're so aware that you're acting 'cause you're sitting across from this lady with a piece of paper
who's going, "I'm. Going. To. Shoot. You. If. You. Don't. Blah, blah, blah," in this emotionless voice.
It's foul. I hate it."
"I want to keep that all my life - the choice to say no.
I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood..
I only do this because I'm having fun.
The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away."
Keanu Reeves
When told, "You'll just have to bite the bullet", his reply was,
"Yes, but you don't have to eat the whole rifle."
"Peope were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away.
Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot."
"It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth.
If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth."
Hugh Jackman
“There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn’t resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine.
The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.”
“I miss having the claws. But, I have a little scar on my hand and there is a bigger one on my knee. With those nine inch claws, I was getting a little dangerous.”
“Suddenly Deb says, ‘Hugh, don’t look now, but right next to me, you’re on the side of a bus.’”
Robert Downey Jr.
You know, it used to be don't believe everything you read in the news, and then it was don't believe everything you see on TV. Now the new one is don't believe everything that's printed on some website that's not even run by the people the website is about.
If 'ifs' were gifts, each day would be Christmas.
All they want to do is talk about the five dumbest things, or the five illest moments I have ever had in my life. It's almost like there should be international laws against it because it's so petty and shallow and most people are much more interesting than just their dark spots.
Gaspard Ulliel
"I had a really regular progression--and this is really pleasant, I think--because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get...experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away."
Christian Bale
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
You're creating a different world and the actors job is to be able to convince the audience to enter that world,
whether it be actually something that you recognise from life or not.
Johnny Knoxville
I don't feel I really had anything to prove... The part was offered to me outright, so I didn't audition for it.
But pretty much southern, ne'er-do-well, you know, father of a beautiful little girl..
Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much me. Yeah...
Bo and Luke are reckless as all hell.
Mean as snakes, but in a good way.
Megan Fox
I have a really offbeat, weird, dark sense of humor. My sense of humor doesn’t really mesh well with sitcom television.
I worked at a Tropical Smoothie in Florida when I was 15. I would sometimes have to go out by the street in a gigantic banana costume and dance to try to get customers to come in. There was no anonymity - the costume had a big hole cut out so that everyone could see your face. My friends from school would drive back and forth and yell all kinds of awesome obscenities at me.
Comics
Comics I read, re-read and loved to death during the year.
Hellblazer
"I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness.
Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive the demons away.
I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down, and then I'll be gone back into the darkness,
leaving only a nod, a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone...
Would you want to walk with me?"
Hack/Slash
"Killing the horror writer in the shower, 'Psycho' style.. Well, it doesn't get more ironic than that."
Runaways
Molly: He doesn't look that scary.
Nico: This isn't actual size, Molly. The real Galactus is supposedly over thirty feet tall.
Chase: Whoa, that would mean Vic's mom--
Gert: Don't even think of finishing that thought Chase.
Seriously, what the hell? Were we supposed to know that Skrulls' secret alien weakness was getting head-butted?
Characters
Characters I grew to love throughout this year. whether they are new or old.
John Constantine
(Hellblazer)
"My name is John constantine. I'm not the nicest bloke you ever met, but I do me best."
"This is where we started it and this is where it'll finish.
This is the killing ground where I take my revenge -- just as soon as I work out exactly how."
Joker
(Batman)
"Well...this guy goes into the hospital, okay?...His wife's just had a baby and he can't wait to see them both. So he meets the doctor and says, 'Oh, doc, I've been so worried. How are they?' And the doctor smiles and says, 'They're fine. Just fine. Your wife delivered a healthy baby boy and they're both in tip-top form.....You're one lucky guy' So the guy rushed into the maternity ward with his flowers. But its empty. His wife's bed's empty. 'Doc?' he says and he turns around and the doctor and the nurses wave their arms and scream in his face...
'APRIL FOOL! YOU'RE WIFE'S DEAD AND THE BABY'S A SPASTIC!' Get it?"
“They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line the bodies head to tone on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dancer routine-and it would never be enough. No I don’t keep count. But you do. And I love you for it.”
Tony Stark
(Iron Man)
"I need a day when there aren't twenty crises to deal with, but I don't see that coming any time soon."
"Oh, yeah. Me and Mandarin go way back. I've been locked up in his palace so many times I've thought of having my mail forwarded there."
Harley Quinn
(Batman)
"Ladies and jerks! There's been a slight change in tonight's show. Insteada the opera robbin' you for somethin'
like a thousand bucks a seat -- we're gonna rob you!
Believe me folks, I've seen it already. I'm doin' ya a big favor!"
"Aww, come on Puddin'. Don't you want to rev up your Harley?"
Hellboy
"The world needs what we can do. That makes us good guys. That's enough for me."
Hellboy: You can't stay, Professor.
Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm: I'm no longer director of field operations, but I'm not ready to retire.
Hellboy: I'm not saying that. But you shouldn't be here. You're too-
Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm: Old? I'm sorry I don't share your seemingly eternal youth.
You grew so fast at first. In no time at all, you were too big to spank.
Hellboy: Only 'cause the tail got in the way.