Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?

Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.

I kiss your tear-stained cheeks, tasting the saltiness of a hidden sea of sorrow.

This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Don't look for shortcuts, because they'll only hurt you in the long run.

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential.