It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.

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.

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

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.

Is the prospect of magic any more outrageous than a dragon train?

If you've experienced half of the things I've passed through in life, you wouldn't underestimate the power of love.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

I think Donald Trump always speaks straight from his mind and straight from his heart.

You need a story to displace a story.

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.