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.

Dallas was enormous. I couldn’t believe it. My life changed. From being out of it, I was suddenly a star, known to more people than ever before.

My mother was like the pope. Any talent that I have that’s good comes straight from her. She was loving to all people. Not only me.

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They’re just good films. So why we can’t we have good films that happen to have black people, or...

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

Trying to give back a little bit is important.

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.

There’s a tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating side to the record that I have in my normal life. I didn’t realize it was coming through.

That wasn’t a musical, that was a straight play, but what I discovered is that for the most part, I was getting cast in musicals in New York.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

There’s no such thing as ‘facts of life’. Only standing theories that haven’t been disproved as of yet.

I don’t use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

“Handsome” means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action...

I’ve written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I’m 30.