I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Our people... blood is the only language we speak. I'm all out of words.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.