My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

People often ask if I have a favorite song that I've written. And the answer is yes, but it depends on the day and what mood I'm in.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.