I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I’m even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients – timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

I like to work fast.

I’m doing naughty things, I’m drinking too much, I’m going to clubs. It really didn’t matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn’t let their kids hang out with me.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

I’ve worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

I’m lucky if I find one movie a year that’s worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do...

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

I don’t really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that’s nice if you do.

Where’s my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

It’s kind of a shame that it’s even an issue. Not being gay, I can’t fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were,...

‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I’ve cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they’re artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit...

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

Acting is constant exploration.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

But I always had the ability to say no. That’s how I called my own shots.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson’s.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said ‘God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope...

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.