I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.