As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

A good marriage is not a gift

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.