As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

The world isn't what you think it is.

It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

I'm only the messenger.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

The beauty of a loving smile has a timeless freshness.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.