This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.