It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

Cheating is often more efficient.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast

Get the kNACk of being you by getting the NAG out of you. Find out how in Chapter 5.

You are most happy when you can give yourself away to others.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.