But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to – that’s your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it’s just like taking a step into heaven....

STAR TREK wouldn’t die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn’t anything that was going to...

The point of my explanation is I’m very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out –...

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make...

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

I’m a shepherd, not a sheep, and I’ve always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

I got a job as an auto mechanic, and I would have stayed in that narrow kind of life if I hadn’t discovered art. Music changed me completely.

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.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a...

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!