I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

Perseverance is the enemy of doubt.

When a woman smiles, then her dress should smile to

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.