Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

The right man in your life will fly across the world to say hello, instead of saying goodbye.

Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

One reads in order to ask questions

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.