Like most people, I would sing in the privacy of my home. I’d also sing for my daughters or at a guest at somebody’s function. I loved doing it.

You can’t do psychological thrillers. There’s no audience. I’ve heard this. I’ve heard this from studios.

There’s the most resistance to an actor singing. It’s like I’m being disloyal to my industry.

Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.

Frankly – and believe me, I say this without any pretense – when I see the road I’ve taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do...

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

I’m the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I’ve basically taken meetings for a living.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime – to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn’t sure I would...

I’m not someone who’s led my life trying to get publicity; I’d rather do my work and go home.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can’t do it. They don’t have the chops.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

I’ve been watching a lot of Jack Nicholson’s stuff because I realized the only things I’d seen him in were Batman and Mars Attacks.

I love the fact that it’s not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can’t help it.

Put a gangster and a junkie together and you get a junkie gangster, and you get nominated, there you go.

So I went to SUNY. at Purchase, studied acting at the conservatory. Did some plays, later TV. Nothing unusual.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn’t want to do that.

There was a time – before I made movies – when I was more forgiving, but now that I’ve learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see,...

My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

I don’t know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

I’ve certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone...

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as...

It’s just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I’ve done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

I’m just a geeky, goofy person.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because it’s been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don’t have a lot of it.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.

I don’t act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

I can say I was associated with the success of those other films that debuted at #1, I was in it as number 3 guy or number 4 guy.

It’s an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it’s original intent and form and has transcended… itself!

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be – and when they’re not, we cry.

I’m attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I’ve had a lot of it in my life.

We can’t control what the ratings will be. It’s like, if you’re going to go skiing, do you hope you’ll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won’t break your leg?...

I’m not a light-hearted person, so I can’t think light-hearted at work.

The show has boundaries right now we’re trying to widen them not break them.

If you’re going to spend seven months of your life – for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life – doing something, I think you have to have something...

To be famous and broke is hard.

I think Steven Spielberg has first movies! Martin Scorsese has first movies. I don’t just jump into something. I like the whole audition process.

If it doesn’t know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.