In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients – timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

I like to work fast.

I’m doing naughty things, I’m drinking too much, I’m going to clubs. It really didn’t matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn’t let their kids hang out with me.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

I’ve worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

I’m lucky if I find one movie a year that’s worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do...

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

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.

When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn’t get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.

Death is inevitable, but Life – that’s the tricky bit where things happen.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch...

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that’s more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

What happens if you’re the guy who’s been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become...

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental...

I wasn’t really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It’s everywhere.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn’t...

I’m disappointed because you put your time and energy into a certain character or a project and the product and you just never know.

I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I’m what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

I was working for Neil Simon on Broadway.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn’t tell him the...

It’s better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

I’ve aged, but grown up? No.

None of my checks from Paramount bounced.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I’d hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I...

I’m just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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