I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

I have so many people who still talk to me about The Long Kiss Goodnight, about that being one of their favorite movies, and it really was a fun movie.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

The best- choices are positive attitude, positive outlook and positive self-esteem.

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.