Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

When you knock off work tonight, go looking for Toby, because, trust me, he will be looking for you.

Are we all, at heart, just Internet trolls?

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.