We boil at different degrees.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.

Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

I won’t make a movie for money ever again.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside – and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit...

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken’s heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

If I have enough ego to say I’m a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry...

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

I’m really open about talking about how green I am and how I want learn. I want to be the least good person in any project I do.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

So it’s a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it’s really over trivia.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn’t look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there’s only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

You can’t think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

The curse of being on Frasier is the challenge of finding writing that’s that good in any other medium. I’ve been looking at scripts for two years.

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

If you don’t generate tension in the film to begin with… you can’t really make a purse out of a sow’s ear, you know.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

The 1920s were essentially the time when I learned the business of performing. It was my initiation into the world of show business.

I don’t have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

I don’t know who’s worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don’t respect their intelligence.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want...

There’s a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn’t been married, he’d worked his way up the chain of command....

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do… the place just grows on you.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

It’s funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

The fact that the writers and producers have give us the opportunity to mold these characters into something that is not everyday has been a pleasure.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Little things please little minds.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

I’m aware that, from the outside, this looks like I’ve got quite an ego.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.