In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

I love life, and I embrace every minute of it.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there's no exit in any direction'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

In the end we're all just chalk lines on the concrete Drawn only to be washed away For the time that I've been given I am what I am

Only kindness is spreadable

Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.