I don’t want people to know what I’m actually like. It’s not good for an actor.

I’m a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

I’m not a big radio guy, I don’t listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I’m doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you...

Well that’s the point: People don’t normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be...

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

I don’t think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I’m in jail, who looks after my children,...

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable – if anything, quite happy with what you are doing – then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I’ve made...

He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same...

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

The heavier crop is ever in others’ fields.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Stanley didn’t shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

My job is to pay attention to my children’s genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

Consistent with this view, we believe, is a clear demand that pictures based on exploration of data should force their messages upon us.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it’s a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

So, yes, the five years that we’ve been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn’t there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya,...

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I’m ready to quit after number two.

I’m actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here.

Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

I’m an actor, coming from New York theater.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while… if you keep on walking.

I have three sisters and I’ve always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

It isn’t always hard work that does the job.

I’m never a person who likes anything I’ve done. It’s just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I’m still thinking, ‘You know, that could have been...

History passes the final judgment.

Since I couldn’t actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

I haven’t done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was...

Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

We all have children, and we’d like to say that we love them all the same, but we know that there’s one that we like a little bit more than the other.

It’s well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen’s goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy… a girl.

The fly that doesn’t want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Women’s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It’s men’s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy....