I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

I don't see myself as the 'Hunk of the Month'.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

I don't think Americans look bad in spandex.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.