If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

I hate you, " I muttered.Noah smiled wider. "I know.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.