I don’t really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that’s nice if you do.

Where’s my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

It’s kind of a shame that it’s even an issue. Not being gay, I can’t fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were,...

‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I’ve cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they’re artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit...

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

Acting is constant exploration.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

But I always had the ability to say no. That’s how I called my own shots.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson’s.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said ‘God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope...

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but...

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we...

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I’ve been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to...

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I’m allowed to...

It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

I’m not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

People think celebrities don’t have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It’s like you’ve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what...

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they’re not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

I write, but I also act.

I’m just trying to let everything lie and grow right now, I’m not going to pressure myself to do anything that it’s right for the time.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

It’s just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I’m sure I will, but I’m just trying to postpone...

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so...

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

In other words, I wouldn’t like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it’s crazy to think of any form where it’s just one...

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.

Well, I’m proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don’t want to be an actor who directs, I...

I’d really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I’m the action guy.

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I think, frankly, that I’m a better director than I was an actor.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.