First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

What is right may properly be uttered even twice.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

To be counted in the world's top 10 of anything I guess gets eyeballs.

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.