One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.

Wishes only come true to those who work relentlessly.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all