I’ve been in this business so long, it just doesn’t faze me. I know what’s going to happen before it happens.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

I don’t know if you’ll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

I don’t even like to sleep – I feel as if there’s too much to do.

Before Footloose, the things I’d done weren’t cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

I have a natural swagger.

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we’d never hoped for!

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

Big feature films are another world.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

It’s a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it’s a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you’re told, you can...

The great thing about movies is that they’re collaborative. And the worst thing is that they’re collaborative.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

The way it looks is exactly how it was.

Well, I’m a character actor, and actually throughout my life I’ve… I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I’ve done it.

I’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

The majority of directors I’ve worked with didn’t know how to talk to actors.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn’t been the manifested reception of it so far.

In this business, you’re either Brad Pitt right away, or you’re already going down the ladder.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it’s done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

We have a great job where you get to put out something positive like this that might make people think, that might make people feel.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was… a human being.

So I’m OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I heard we’ll get you a pass because we know you’re married to a black woman. You’re married to a sister so we’ll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also...

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Whether you like another band’s music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that...

My parents just neglected me, I wasn’t abused or anything.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

Why not come see a project that I’m actually the lead in, as opposed to being the second and third lead? Imagine what I can do if it was my show.

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It’s a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as...

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don’t care about anything except affection and food. They’re loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That’s how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don’t know where it’s gonna go. Wait long enough – love will find you. Everything’s a surprise. When you think you’ve got it all...

My dad had been an actor… not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we’d all approach our lives very differently.