I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I’m not necessarily going to leave the United States.

Let’s face facts, this is visual medium, there’s a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don’t make a...

When I’m not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I’m going to come into your house and clean your pool.

Getting older is hard.

I’d do anything to have more kids. But that’s probably not gonna happen now.

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, ‘Law school will always be there.’...

Bush wasn’t elected, he was selected – selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

I don’t think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn’t care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my...

I’m a pretty loyal person.

In the film business, when you’re young, you just want to work. But when you’re older, it has more to do with who’s involved with the project – who you’re going to get in the...

Everybody I’ve ever worked with – 99.9 percent of the time, I’ve had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Success begets success. I’ve been offered a lot of movies now that ’30 Rock’ has been successful.

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut – cut money for powerless people. So, that’s the biggest problem I have with them.

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one...

I feel I’m two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I’d like to pursue.

I don’t think I really have a talent for movie acting.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookie.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

I think I’m just like a lot of people who had nothing.

When I told my parents, ‘I’m going to be an actor,’ they screamed and wept and freaked out.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

There’s less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level – forget about the media – than ever before. We’ve never needed people to think more critically than now, and they’ve...

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went,...

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

There’s three things: there’s masculinity, there’s intelligence, there’s sensitivity. You’ve got to bring those three things to a leading man’s role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there’s a little too much in the mix...

I’d do anything to have more kids.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don’t speak the language!

I don’t want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I’m 75. I mean, I’m not opposed to men doing that. But I don’t think it’s gonna work for me.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Doing these parts is not fun. It’s challenging, but no fun. It’s creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

I’m the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I’m not wanted.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don’t know if I will.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I’ve thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don’t have the same stress that other people have, but there...

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn’t commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn’t go all the way...

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

I don’t need to be married to Georgia O’Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, ‘Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but...

I’m not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Often in films, you have no idea where you’re going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn’t necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can...

When you’re with someone, you want everything to be great. And that’s the pressure that you put on, and what you just can’t do.

A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don’t have to wear a tie. I think it’s kind of a statement they’re making. I...

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It’s just different.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.