I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I owe my father everything.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

Hunger's a great spur.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

I went to see "The Piano" with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.