I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day

Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

A real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm... I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.