Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

I’m here to make sense.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations – the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I think my character’s getting to the point where he can’t even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can’t sleep anymore.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

There’s nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you’re gonna eat it.

Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

I don’t want people to know what I’m actually like. It’s not good for an actor.

I’m a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

I’m not a big radio guy, I don’t listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I’m doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you...

The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like – who are very talented.

I don’t read my own reviews and I haven’t for probably 15 years. I read other people’s reviews, though.

I don’t have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.

If there is some art involved, I’d like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

Comedy is so hard; it’s so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can’t understand either of us.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

I’ve been on sets where things weren’t relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

I’m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what’s known as brotherhood.

On the second day I was working with Susan Sarandon, and I was having a particularly tough time for some reason with this one scene.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn’t a chance to go deeply into the characters.

I think that I’ve been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I’ve spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Sometimes it’s difficult directing yourself on film because you can’t quite separate yourself from the subject.

Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

I’m an actor, coming from New York theater.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while… if you keep on walking.

I have three sisters and I’ve always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

It isn’t always hard work that does the job.

I’m never a person who likes anything I’ve done. It’s just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I’m still thinking, ‘You know, that could have been...

History passes the final judgment.

Since I couldn’t actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

I haven’t done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was...

Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.