To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.