Men still have to be governed by deception.

You’re raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it’s special. I think people react to celebrities like that — I mean, they treat...

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down...

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

I’m like, ‘What world am I living in?’ Aren’t movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don’t have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you...

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that’s depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

I’m really good with fighting with my feet.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

All these child stars grow up and they’re knockin’ over banks and getting prostitutes. I’m, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.

I’ve been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn’t surface. Some of the films that I’ve done in the past really were surface.

I’m also serving as a commissioner on the Japan-U.S. Commission, appointed by President Clinton, which will be taking me to Tokyo in June.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we’d do episodes that had karate.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn’t screw up takes for fun because we didn’t have enough film.

Maybe It’s not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates,...

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don’t know what it’s like any more to be anonymous.

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play...

And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show.

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

I’m right at a time when I’m strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don’t get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It’s always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here’s a place...

People look at me and go, ‘You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It’s not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I’m just as...

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

All the actors have input as far as story editing and writing. We don’t just show up and say the lines. We are involved in writing the show.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn’t ride.

I mean, Scorsese’s a genius, and that’s one way of shooting.

Although, I didn’t really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

It’s good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

Ultimately, it’s a pretty confusing moment.

I’m a patriot of the heart.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

It’d be disingenuous to say I don’t like attention – I’m an actor for God’s sake – and it’s flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and...

The best part is it’s a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it… it’s all good! I work long hours, but it’s amazing. They pay...

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

It’s wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

If you miss one day in physics, that’s it.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.