My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God – there’s so many things I like. Well, I’d say it’s ‘Walk...

I don’t want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can...

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren’t there, no matter what aspect...

My favorite show from the ’60s was ‘Combat.’ And maybe ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’

Hamlet, that’s the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to...

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I’m willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I...

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that’s what’s being offered to you.

I’ve always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is...

I can’t imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on ‘Avatar.’ And whether I’m ever part of it again, I’ll always be very proud that I was a part of it.

Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, ‘Man, I’d really love to be doing a play right now.’ Because I loved doing plays when I was doing...

I wouldn’t say ‘Avatar’ changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren’t the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your...

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, ‘I really hate you.’ And they say it in the nicest possible way, and I accept it. It’s the people who come up...

I have a penchant for playing God’s clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God’s clown.

I’m always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I’ll make the time to do it.

You can play anyone if you’re open enough. It’s a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the...

I love the role I’m playing in ‘Conan.’ I’m enjoying making the film tremendously. It’s very physically demanding. You know, Conan is 28 years younger than me and a big dude, so I have to...

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Whether I appear in ‘Avatar 2’ or ‘Avatar 3’, I always feel I’m a part of the ‘Avatar’ team.

With correction, and given the chance, ‘Terra Nova’ can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew ‘Terra Nova’ is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the...

I love the stage. It’s terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you’re about to go out, and you’re adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

‘Beyond Glory’ is responsible for this wave that I’ve been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I did primarily because I didn’t know what else to do. You might say...

I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I’m seeing, and where it is and where it’s going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But...

As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can’t play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I’m a little older, a little scrappier. So...

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and...

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will...

I’ve been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don’t overindulge, and you can do all right.

I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes,...

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

The world of ‘Terra Nova’ as we joined it… there is a certain amount of prosperity there, and in fact I would say that I was a bit surprised when I first got there to...

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it’s my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for...

Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too ‘Terra Nova.’ Even in its...

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We’ve all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it’s what I do professionally.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he’s unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

I watched the Tyson-Holyfield fight with Stallone. I remember when Tyson bit him, Sly looked at me and said, ‘I think he bit him’. I said, ‘I think you’re right, Rock.’

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Rama of the Jungle’.

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it’s the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have...

I’ve played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I’m not much of a singer. Let’s say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow...

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

My advice to actors? To successful actors, it’s, ‘sock it away,’ and unsuccessful actors, it’s just, ‘Just keep at it. Don’t do it unless you have to do it, and if you have to do...

My philosophy is, ‘Show up, shut up, and do your job,’ and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you’re likely to be able to do it again.