I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

You thought it would break you in two, but it made you twice as strong.

……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".

One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.