I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play the lead role.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.