Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

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.

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

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'm going to go throw up now, because ive turned into my dad. If vomiting doesn't work, I'll see if I can get an exorcism.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities