But no, I’m still living in LA and haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

It was Christopher’s brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over...

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where’s Peter?

My abilities grow with each job, whether it’s writing or directing. When I stop learing, I’ll stop working.

There’s a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I’m much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven’t taken the active approach to making myself a star. I...

Shakespeare in Love… such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I’m a sucker for the accent.

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we’ll see that’s to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what...

Being a new band, I just can’t think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don’t say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she’d be...

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren’t allowed to...

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum.

For me, I’ve always taken being on a set as my school, because I’ve been working since I was ten.

I’m always pleased when people respond to the work.

You’re at the top of your game if you do comedy.

I know that I’m inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen.

Hm, I think I always had respect for the profession, my dad was a district attorney back home for over 20 years, so I had that going in.

It’s not an if – we’re going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

I’m a typical California boy.

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I’ve always thought that it’s counterproductive to have a theory on that.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that’s what I tend to write toward.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don’t want to allow my image to rule the choices that...

The way I see it, if you’re going to make an action movie, you’ve got to make one with John Woo.

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned.

Dallas was enormous. I couldn’t believe it. My life changed. From being out of it, I was suddenly a star, known to more people than ever before.

My mother was like the pope. Any talent that I have that’s good comes straight from her. She was loving to all people. Not only me.

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They’re just good films. So why we can’t we have good films that happen to have black people, or...

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

Trying to give back a little bit is important.

Fortunately, I’ve also been an electrician, and that’s a happy memory for me.

I’ve been very fortunate – You only can do what you’re offered, you know?

My instincts are not comedic.

With Jack, I was always trying to find the positive because they always wrote the negative. I didn’t have to be menacing. The music did it for me.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when...

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you’re playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!

I’ve been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

I have to believe there’s some other life force out there. I don’t know in what form. But we can’t have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

There’s a tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating side to the record that I have in my normal life. I didn’t realize it was coming through.

That wasn’t a musical, that was a straight play, but what I discovered is that for the most part, I was getting cast in musicals in New York.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.