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.

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.

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.